Causes famous quotes
04-05-2025
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.
-- Aaron Levie -
Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause of all things because it is everywhere emergent as each manifest entity.
-- Abhinavagupta -
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
-- Ada Leverson -
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
-- Adam Clarke -
I talk a lot about women in my act, 'cause let's face it -- if I was hungry, I would talk about food.
-- Adam Ferrara -
I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular.
-- Adam Levine -
If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!
-- Adam Young -
Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to bear the costs of replacing it, but costs those whom he planned on using that money to buy from. The same goes for wars. The warlords--of war and peace--destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace.
-- Adam Young -
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
-- Adyashanti -
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
-- Aeschylus -
Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.
-- Agatha Christie -
I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.
-- Akon -
People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
-- Al Franken -
In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
-- Al Goldstein -
...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes...
-- Al Gore -
Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
-- Al Pacino -
I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
-- Alan Cohen -
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.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
-- Alan Hirsch -
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
-- Alan Lightman -
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
-- Alan Perlis -
Andy Carroll will cause anyone problems and I don't see a problem in that
-- Alan Shearer -
Then I thought, with the same clubhead speed, the ball's going to go at least six times as far. There's absolutely no drag, so if you do happen to spin it, it won't slice or hook 'cause there's no atmosphere to make it turn.
-- Alan Shepard -
The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.
-- Alastair Campbell -
There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
-- Albert Camus -
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
-- Albert Camus -
Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
-- Albert Einstein -
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
-- Albert Pike -
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
-- Albertus Magnus -
I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are ‘acceptable crimes’ when used for the animal cause,
-- Alex Pacheco -
Let me know if you're going to do something stupid, kid, 'cause I'll ditch you like that.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
-- Alexander Pope -
Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.
-- Alexander Pope -
What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
-- Alexander Pope -
Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
-- Alexandre Vinet -
Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.
-- Alice Cooper -
Traveling by motor is just one situation after another. ... No matter what happens, don't scream; a scream at the wrong moment has often been known to cause a stall.
-- Alice-Leone Moats -
The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.
-- Alistair Cooke -
Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
-- Alistair Sinclair -
It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.
-- Althea Gibson -
More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.
-- Alva Myrdal -
I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You have to have a flicker of humor 'cause everyone has a flicker of humor, something they find funny in life.
-- Amy Seimetz -
Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
-- Amy Winehouse -
Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.
-- Amy Winehouse -
My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
One great cause of failure of young men in business is the lack of concentration.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.
-- Andrew Mellon -
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
-- Andrew Young -
Everyone gets real quiet 'cause they're a little uncomfortable.
-- Andy Offutt Irwin -
UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.
-- Andy Stern -
I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.
-- Angelina Jolie -
I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
-- Ani DiFranco -
I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.
-- Ani DiFranco -
I make such a good statistic, somebody should study me now; somebody's gotta be interested in how I feel, just cause I'm here, and I'm real.
-- Ani DiFranco -
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
-- Anita Shreve -
Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.
-- Ann Landers -
Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
-- Ann Richards -
We don't know yet if it was the raw fish. We may never know the cause.
-- Ann Wright -
Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.
-- Anna Howard Shaw -
If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.
-- Anne Boleyn -
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
-- Anne Carson -
I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.
-- Anne Parillaud -
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.
-- Annie Dillard -
I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.
-- Annie Lennox -
Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.
-- Anthony Marra -
War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.
-- Anthony Marra -
The primary cause of disease is in us, always in us.
-- Antoine Bechamp -
This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
-- Antonin Scalia -
A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.
-- Antonio Munoz Molina -
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
-- Aristotle -
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
-- Aristotle -
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.
-- Aristotle -
In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.
-- Aristotle -
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.
-- Aristotle -
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.
-- Aristotle -
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
-- Arnold Schoenberg -
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
-- Arthur Bloch -
Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force.
-- Arthur Eddington -
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.
-- Arthur Helps -
There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.
-- Arthur Hopkins
