Causes Quotes - Page 15

• I have broken all ties that bind me to the (U.S.) Army, not suddenly, impulsively, but conscientiously and after due deliberation. I sacrifice more to my principles than any other officer in the Army can do. I would rather carry a musket in the cause of the South than be commander-in-chief under Mr. Lincoln.

  Edmund Kirby Smith

  War, Army, Sacrifice

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• For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South.

  Arthur Fremantle

  Determination, War, Hopeful

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• Don't allow the enemies in your life to cause you to focus more on your appetite or circumstances than on the promises of God that are released when you employ the powerful weapon of fasting.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Powerful, Focus, Promise

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.53, Charisma Media

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• Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

  Prince

  Answers, Misery, Tricks

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• Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hurt

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2034, Manonmani Publishers

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• I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant- must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause- if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (1995). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• You would think I would recycle by the way I found my last chick...cause all she wants is paper or plastic.

  Consequence

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benevolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for that old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God.

  Jean Giono

  Spring, Taken, Greatness

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• Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Power, Men, Walks

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• Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.

  Posidonius

  Men, Evil, Riches

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• EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dog, Science, Order

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.79, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Judging, Equitable

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.182

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• The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it.

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Enemy, Threat, Formidable

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• We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.

  Deborah Cox

  Love You, Past, Still In Love

  Song: We Can't Be Friends", Album: One Wish, 1998

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• If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.

  Billy Joel

  Past, Way, Remember

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• As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Powerful, Past, Giving

  "De Senectute (On Old Age)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book 5, Section 15), 44 BC.

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• No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical

  Thomas Huxley

  Clever, Mistake, People

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.70, Cambridge University Press

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• Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorance, Men, Talking

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• I see you try to hurt me bad. Don't know what you're up against. Maybe you should reconsider; come up with another plan. Cause you know I'm not that kinda girl. I'll just get back up again.

  Pink

  Girl, Hurt, Upset

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• One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Imagination, Worry, Together

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.100, U of Minnesota Press

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• Many modern (so-called) Reformers are just as dangerous as the physician who makes a wrong diagnosis of a disease. They see the trouble from without and prescribe external remedies, while the cause of the trouble is within and needs internal treatment.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Physicians, Needs, Disease

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• Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of your boredom. You cannot dance - you are chained to the past, you are imprisoned in the past.

  Rajneesh

  Philosophy, Past, Years

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• Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects, and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health are very, very high in radiation matters. It is essential that people take no chance that conflict-of-interest is producing radiation databases which...cannot be trusted.

  John Gofman

  Cancer, Health, Birth Defects

  John Gofman's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1992.

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• Cancer is everybody's cause.

  Laura Ziskin

  Cancer, Survival, Cancer Survival

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