Causes Quotes - Page 56

My neighbor, she invited me to an Elvis party. I told her I couldn't come 'cause I'd be too busy making fun of her from behind my blinds.

Everything has a cause and the cause of anything is everything.

A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

Only if you sacrifice for a cause will you love it.

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.

And though the symptons of lovesickness may be many, they all share a single cause and single cure: you.

So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.

When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.

There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it.

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause - no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful.

In a just cause it is right to be confident.

One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.

The cause doesn't have to be righteous and battle doesn't have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive.

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

Gord [Downie] does so much Waterkeeper stuff. They were involved in [protesting clearcuts at] Clayoquot Sound [in the early '90s]. It's hard sometimes to use the capital you have as a beloved rock band and put it to various causes, especially when they're a bit more controversial, like energy issues.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.

Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.