"...I dabble in causes and effects."

-- Gregory Maguire

#Causes Quotes #Cause And Effect Quotes

“There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.”
“Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin”
“Abraham Lincoln would have been happy to have solved the slavery problem by compensation - in fact, drew up a gradual, compensated emancipation plan as early as November, 1861 - but no slaveholders were willing to go along with it.”
“Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.”
“I would always argue to my students that Canada is not necessarily or inherently a left-wing country, and the United States is not necessarily the citadel of right-wing liberty. The obvious case there is Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, which made the Americans much further left than the Canadians at the time, and Americans coming to Canada found us backward, conservative, and out of tune with the kind of free-spirited liberalism that there was in the States. Then things reversed, with medicare the prime example.”
“If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!”
“It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.”
“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.”

Source : "'Easy' Thanksgiving With The Barefoot Contessa". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org.

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