Causes Quotes - Page 54

The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy cause. Time after time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad politics, I've seen people come through and do for people. I write about someone in trouble and someone else rallies to help them. Through reporting, things can change.

The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere in life is this so common as in war, where the facts are seldom fully known and the underlying motives even less so.

The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.

Do the tasks that causes you the most fear, anxiety, or stress - and get over it.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

Disruption never helps your cause. ... It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.

I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.' What's that?' I...trust you.' Why?' You'll never hurt me.' Thank you.' But...' But, what?' I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.' Why?' 'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back.

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.