Quotes and Sayings About Causes
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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
