Causes Quotes - Page 44

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

If you want change, create the causes.

If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

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

We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. ( Recherches de la vérité , Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.