Causes Quotations | Page 4

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.

Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves.

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.

I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.

You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it.

The soul of the world is in the whole world, and is everywhere so adapted to matter that, at each place, it produces the proper subject and causes the proper actions.

I'd sell my soul for a good cause.

Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Even though there are no physical shackles, wrong believing causes its inmates to behave as though they were incarcerated in a maximum-security penitentiary.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.

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

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy.

I have had breast implants, but it's so funny 'cause it's not a secret; I could care less.

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.

Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

I think that my peers deserve more than products to buy wrapped up in advertising. We need ideas to share and causes to believe in - opportunities to lead and teach.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal

I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.

Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life could be at its very best, that's what I call meeting your rhinoceros.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

I believe terrorism cannot be won over by military action. Terrorism must be condemned in the strongest language. We must stand solidly against it, and find all the means to end it. We must address the root causes of terrorism to end it for all time to come.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.

While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.

I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange 'cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know.

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in 'Star' magazine, which is probably why I didn't cause any trouble worth mentioning.

Brands must be very specific in their choice of social media platforms through which to communicate their CSR or cause messaging.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

Romney has become reluctant to say that human activity causes global warming, and even in his greener days he was always somewhat cagey about which remedies he'd support.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.