Causes Quotes - Page 51

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result.

It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.

No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain.

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

When you're outside in those elements, there's something out there that takes it out of you, so you work real hard. It was physically demanding, but in a very good way. It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing, when things are physically demanding 'cause everyone is rising to the occasion.

And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!

Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life.

There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.

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'd sell my soul for a good cause.

If there is any truth to reincarnation, this must be my first trip through, 'cause I don't recognize anything.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.

It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.

You can't be passionate when you feel like it. You have to be passionate about your job, product or cause all the time. There's no off switch on a tiger.

Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.