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Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content. -- Emily Dickinson
Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives. -- Byron Katie
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. -- Edmund Burke
People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people. -- Adam Yauch
I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. -- Jared Diamond
Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way. -- Anas Aremeyaw Anas
You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator. -- Dick Murphy
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. -- Emily Greene Balch
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. -- Zhuangzi
Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else. -- Majora Carter
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. -- Plato
Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us. -- Noreena Hertz
Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations. -- Paul Singer
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. -- George Boole
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. -- Ansel Adams
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. -- Jim Jarmusch
People worry that gas prices are high and how they are affecting their pocket book. But they want to know about renewable energy. People are really starting to question things, and that's made people look to the future in a positive way. -- Michael Franti
I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community. -- Magic Johnson
We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target. -- Dilma Rousseff
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time. -- Ben Shapiro
The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades. -- Vladimir Putin
I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women. -- Mickey Rooney
The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems. -- Rudy Giuliani
When we see the relatedness of ourselves to the universe, that we do not live as isolated entities, untouched by what is going on around us, not affecting what is going on around us, when we see through that, that we are interrelated, then we can see that to protect others is to protect ourselves, and to protect ourselves is to protect others. -- Sharon Salzberg
To achieve style, begin by affecting none. -- E. B. White
To acquire style, begin by affecting none. -- William Strunk, Jr.
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation. -- Charles Lamb
The payroll tax is affecting sales. It's causing sales declines. -- Fred DeLuca
Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other. -- William George Jordan
Things happening around the world are affecting you and me. -- Fareed Zakaria
How's daydreaming affecting nightmares? Showing the light where is all dark! -- Ana Claudia Antunes
I feel its important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. -- Asghar Farhadi
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past. -- Khaleda Zia
You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you -- C. Delores Tucker
Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people. -- Jim Rohn
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past -- Khaleda Zia
Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing. -- Ambrose Bierce
As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. -- Ram Dass
It's a big thing to feel like you're doing something that's actually affecting people. -- John Krasinski
The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year. -- John Garamendi
Focus on sharing your story and affecting the people that are hungry for your light. -- Kathryn Budig
The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values. -- Warren Buffett
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour. -- George Herbert
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. -- Ambrose Bierce
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love. -- Christine Sneed
So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try. -- Simon Sinek
I want the public to know the truth, not every condition affecting the heart comes from a blockage. -- Robert Atkins
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. -- Kenneth Branagh
You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose. -- Ray Davies
No law made by man can overturn that of the Creator without dramatically affecting society in its very foundation. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity. -- Sathya Sai Baba
That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within. -- Liz Phair
I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all. -- Larry the Cable Guy
even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries. -- Connie May Fowler
A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system. -- Wendy Kopp
Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes. -- Leston Havens
There is no such thing as a strictly woman's problem. Any question affecting the welfare of society is a woman's problem. -- Nancy Astor
Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people. -- Luke Ford
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war. -- Carl von Clausewitz
It is a very powerful feeling to know that my work is affecting people and to hear it from them directly. -- Ron Haviv
No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child. -- Charles Francis Richter
We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans. -- Louise Slaughter
Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree. -- Jimmy Page
I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I. -- Daniel Tosh
I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters. -- Charles Lamb
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion. -- Robin Morgan
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion -- Robin Morgan
Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood. -- Marilyn Suzanne Miller
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter. -- John Wooden
The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty. -- Marty Natalegawa
Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense. -- Ambrose Bierce
The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification, distributed print. -- Eric Bell
Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?" -- Epictetus
It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Ever since 9/11, I found myself interested in chronicling the war and the war on terror and the way that this giant machinery was affecting individuals. -- Mark Boal
So many people just have that innate thing that allows them to express themselves in a way the majority can follow. That's when you're affecting culture. -- Pharrell Williams
I like to do movies, because I love becoming different characters, and telling different stories through different eyes, and affecting someone's life in one way or another. -- Lindsay Lohan
It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color. -- Danny Glover
As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there. -- Djimon Hounsou
It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color -- Danny Glover
Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development. -- Li Keqiang
This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map. -- Francis Crick
Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development. -- Li Keqiang
Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed. -- Emma Watson
The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have been taking the knock for some time and that's affecting people. -- Lucy Powell
Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets. -- Sara Paretsky
I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world. -- John F. Kerry
I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience. -- Saul Williams
Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world, affecting 17.6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13.6%. ...No one..really knows the extent of the parasites and the diseases they cause. -- Ruth Winter
Personal matters aren't really any of my business. I don't care who is sleeping with whom for example unless it is somehow affecting an individual's performance in the public arena -- Terry Mosher
We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another. -- Ram Dass
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment. -- Dean Koontz
My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress. -- Harold Ford, Jr.
I think every person has the ability to affect change...through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world. -- Adam Yauch
Diabetes is an all-too-personal time bomb which can go off today, tomorrow, next year, or 10 years from now - a time bomb affecting millions like me and the children here today. -- Mary Tyler Moore
Kundalini can be transmitted. A person who is very adept at the enlightenment process can transmit it. Whether you feel it or not, it's affecting you in a very positive way. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Kid's little binges, his forays into intoxication were affecting everyone now. They were affecting their goals and dreams. They were affecting Natasha. She was probably drinking just to deal with him. -- Melodie Ramone
Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality. -- Ayn Rand
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
Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation. -- Calvin Coolidge
These statements absolutely do not correspond to reality. The Russian proposals are very simple stop all form of barter arrangements and shift to normal, market relations affecting gas supplies and gas transit. -- Viktor Khristenko
Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago. -- Alan Moore
I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema veritÃ©. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it. -- David Shapiro
The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark. -- Julia Glass
You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It is affecting you. Seventy-five percent of Americans think the government is corrupt. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It is affecting you. Seventy-five percent of Americans think the government is corrupt. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The two most important documents affecting the destiny of America are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Both these immortal papers relate primarily to the freedom of the individual. -- David O. McKay
Wal-Mart benefits from the impression that globalization is some kind of unmanageable economic weather system out of the control of everyone, affecting all players with indifference, benefiting those who happened to be properly prepared. -- Charles Fishman
Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill. -- Barbara Castle
Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching. -- Mortimer Adler
There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man. -- Henry David Thoreau
I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across. -- Courtney Love

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