#result

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness. ↗

— William Safire

#color #greater #i #more #new

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose. ↗

— Donal Henahan

#commit #human #human brain #incessant #intent

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. ↗

— Anna Kournikova

#first #first of all #here #i #i am

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#inflicts #itself #mind #result #torments

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life. ↗

— Gene Siskel

#couple #exciting #filled #get #hours

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each? ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#cause-and-effect #chain-of-events #chance #change #choice

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#because #democratic #expressing #first #first time

My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#analysis #between #conditions #defective #directed

We are the sum total of the decisions we have made. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#choices #choices-and-consequences #conclusions #consequences #decisions

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#about #been #buy #does #hamas