Causes Quotes - Page 36

The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century), is easily turned aside with just one more question: Who or what caused and moved God?

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

Through Clinton and Monica, Clinton and Hillary, the scandal, the impeachment, Iraq, Bruce and Demi, Ellen and Anne, I have remained consistently and nauseatingly adorable. I have, in fact, been known to cause diabetes.

Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

Introverts almost never cause me trouble and are usually much better at what they do than extroverts. Extroverts are too busy slapping one another on the back, team building, and making fun of introverts to get much done. Extroverts are amazed and baffled by how much some introverts get done and assume that they, the extroverts, are somehow responsible.

It wouldn't even make you gay if you had sex with Johnny Depp, 'cause it's Johnny Depp.

If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.

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.

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.

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

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

I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time.

Inequality is the cause of all local movements.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes.

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

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.