Causes Quotes

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.

Inequality is the cause of all local movements.

By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway.

...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.

The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!

Cause mo better makes it mo better.

You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

Well, if you've got a one-in-a-million girl don't let her get away; cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away.

One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me.

Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health.

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.

Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer.

The leading cause of death is birth.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.