#affect

The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#affecting #commerce #country #directly #fact

You affect the world by what you browse. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#affect #browse #world #you

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#china #civil #civil rights #depression #directions

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#doctrine #religion #theology #business

Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British? ↗

— Julian Fellowes

#actors #affectations #british #claudette-colbert #clichés

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#christ #christian #god #inspirational #jesus

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#emotions #hatred #heart #love #love

I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#music #the-beatles #marriage

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death. ↗

— Phil Bredesen

#between #consequences #death #decisions #difference