“Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.” LastsLeftEffectsStandingDepartmentBorrowingTreasuryBorrowers Author:Peter R. Orszag
“Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.” ThinkingBigsMotherLeftFeltSidesSpaceEffectsHugeFilledHoles Author:Imelda Staunton
“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.” MenTwoMatterTurnsLeftPartyIssuesSubjectsEffectsPoetAspectFortuneDisappointmentVariousVersionsConsiderationPlumber Author:Thomas Frank
“When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?” IfsLooksBookMatterCultureReadingLeftMeditationEffectsTelevisionTvsMajorsProgramWaveDisappearLook UpProcessingHemisphereAlphasWatching TvWatching TelevisionBetaTheta Author:Leonard Shlain
“He who tears down the cross, what is there left to lift him to heaven? The church claiming to be a Christian church is false to the title, if she make the cross of Christ of none effect.” IfsChristianLeftHeavenChristChurchEffectsTearsCrossesLiftsTitlesChristian Church Author:Herrick Johnson
“God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.” WorldHeartLeftEffectsThis WorldConscienceArgumentMercyIntuitionSentimentsWrathPrimalTransitory Author:Edwin Percy Whipple
“A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.” WorldLeftEffectsCompetitionWesternSelfishManageDestructiveComponentsWestern World Author:W. Edwards Deming
“These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.” ShouldBookLeftForgetChildhoodEffectsPicksTraumaThese DaysExpertsGreat MenChildhood Trauma Author:Peter Straub
“Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.” LawLeftEffectsCapitalismOur SocietyJungle Author:Mohsin Hamid
“We are moving into a new world and the old negativity will be left behind. Through the law of cause and effect, we can change the world, one person at a time.” WorldPersonsMovingLawLeftCausesBehindsEffectsChanging The WorldNew WorldNegativityLeft BehindCause And Effect Author:Dolores Cannon
“The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.” IfsChildrenLongNamesLostLeftWifeEffectsShameIllStrangerThirtyPosterityUnbornMatrimonyBest Times Author:Walter Raleigh
“When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.” PeopleFeelsLeftSidesResultsEffectsCarSexualityComplainingSide EffectsAntidepressants Author:Bradford Cox
“My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.” IfsHas BeensLeftTeachingEffectsTragedyVisibleHinduismGitaHindu Religion Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi