Causes Quotations

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

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

I'm trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it's interesting to think that connects directly to our kitchens and how we can make eggs, how we can remember one direction of time, why causes precede effects, why we are born young and grow older. It's all because of entropy increasing.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.

I had no fear 'cause it seemed everyone in the audience always applauded whatever I did. Course, maybe it was because I always seemed to know everyone in the audience.

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.

There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

I love getting told no 'cause then I fight even more.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted,

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

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

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.

Standing as a witness in all things means all things - big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games played and books read and music listened to, in causes supported, in service rendered, in clothes worn, in friends made.

In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.

What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.

I'm a tomboy at the end of the day, so anything that causes me to have to run around, fight people, roll in the dirt, hop a fence - I'm all for it. So I really would love to do an action film.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor.

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.

I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

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.

I value public service and I'm relatively good at organizing political causes.

The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

There are many causes of violent deaths in America - murders and traffic accidents - that we do not approach with the same 'no price too steep, no task too difficult' approach that we take toward al Qaeda.

It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.

There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war.

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.

When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.

At CARE, a leading humanitarian organization, we recognize people live their lives in a holistic manner. Issues such as health care, education and economic empowerment cannot be addressed in a vacuum. Thus, effective programs need to tackle the multiple root causes of poverty.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it

If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.