Causes Quotes - Page 68

The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got into it as well 'cause I started with the folk styles.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts, it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cos I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.

I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.

A woman warm and willing is what I'm looking for, cause the whiskey ain't working anymore.

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale.

The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about, which depend on causes we know absolutely nothing about.

I burn with no causes.

The problem with movies is that movies end and your life doesn't. This doesn't appear to cause any trouble, but it does cause confusion, which is almost as bad.

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

Because I'm dangerous. I don't mean to be but I am. I'm dangerous to be around, dangerous to everybody. I cause harm. I might even harm you. And I couldn't bear that.

Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.

If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.

Prophecy is many times the principal cause of the events foretold.

No man can be judge to his own cause.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

Are you feeling lucky? Cause I'm on a roll.

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force.