Causes Quotes

Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide.

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

It's more of a strength model to say that [Vladimir] Putin will do what it takes to defend his country. But that's why Putin is dangerous and Russia is a major cause of concern for us .

Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the only cause that you can't die for.

Lust is the cause of generation.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.

I do love action films and I hope I'm going to do many more and learn lots of new crafts 'cause that's the joy of movies.

Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.

Who did it, Sephy?' She repeated. 'Who beat you up? 'Cause whoever it was, I'll kill them.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in, external situations cause internal friction, you grow apart and then bounce back together.

Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.

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.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

Each time we bring to routine activities an awareness of 'now,' we raise our vibratory frequency and cause the freshness of the moment to fall upon us.

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

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

To know much is often the cause of doubting more.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

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

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

Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.

Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth.

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.

Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.

I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.

And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

Let's cause some senators distress.

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

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.