Causes Quotes - Page 20

To hell with news! I'm no longer interested in news. I'm interested in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's true.

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

It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise is true, but the conclusion does not follow. For though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.

Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

The number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

What happened in the milliseconds before a behavior to cause it? That's in the neurobiological realm.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself.

There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

Youre still beautiful to me, cause youre my mom.

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

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.

And me, I know that there is a god. Cause I know who god is.