Causes Quotes
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.
The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.
I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.
It only takes a minute to cause hurt but sometimes a lifetime to repair. Be careful with your words and actions.
It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.
Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.
It's so simple just like that, 'cause it's a shame that where you're at isn't always where you really wanna be.
As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about...
Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me. Dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shinin' down on me.
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process
Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.
Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.
One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!
Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.
The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.
The first music you really fall in love with is more than just music. It's something that clicks in you beyond the song; it's a message or image that causes you to jump in and not let go.
You might be a redneck if your momma calls you over to help, cause she has a flat tire on her house.
I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.
Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.
Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it.
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.
See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness.
The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.
If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.