Causes Quotes - Page 39

Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.

Cause I bring the heater. Love me cause I'm your leader.

Polygamy causes a lot of strife

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

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.

Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with a given velocity, and can we make these approximations so close that they do not cause experimental difficulties?

Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.

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.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

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.

Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.

If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs. Life is both subtler and more complex than some of us like to believe. So if you haven't done so already, review your beliefs and decide which ones you might change now and what you would change those beliefs to.

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide.

Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.

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.

Unless I have enough personal power to keep commitments in my daily life, I will be unable to wield magical power. To work magic, I need a basic belief in my ability to do things and cause things to happen. That belief is generated and sustained by my daily actions.