Causes Quotes

• Arrogance is inimical to prudential reasoning, to accepting that for all we know and learn we also accumulate ignorance of the questions we do not ask, the risks we do not and cannot comprehend. In short, arrogance is what causes us to ignore our fallibilities.

  

  Ziauddin Sardar
  • Risk
  • Ignorance
  • Accepting

• '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.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Easy
  • Teach
  • Marijuana

• [It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.

  

  James Hutton
  • Earth
  • Changes
  • Causes

• When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"

  

  Geoff Zanelli
  • Children
  • Young
  • Answers

• We have this day to be alive. We better lay down and give up, or stand up and really make some worthwhile memories for ourselves. 'Cause we're not going to be alive forever

  

  Bert McCracken
  • Giving
  • Forever
  • Memories

• The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Gay

• We're not the cause, we're the effect.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • Causes
  • Effects

• Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Party
  • Literature
  • Proletariat

• Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.

  

  Kassia
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Swollen

• The curtains were made for moving Cause you know sometimes you're not always there

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Moving
  • Sometimes
  • Curtains

• Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Mankind
  • Foundation
  • Importance

• When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Children
  • Reason
  • Son

• Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.

  

  August Bier
  • Cancer
  • Library
  • Fit

• As your life continually poses new questions, it also poses new answers - which cause expansion. As your life presents new problems, it also presents new solutions - which cause expansion - and All-That-Is benefits from your willingness to live and consider and explore ... and expand.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Problem
  • Answers
  • Benefits

• The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

  

  Charles A. Reich
  • Evil
  • Competition
  • Trouble

• Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Failure
  • Causes
  • Ways

• When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Way

• A lot of artists still will not get that far. And get that far and be as successful. So, it's a great thing for me, and hopefully I can make it to number 10. And then I would want to start managing other artists, 'cause I think the best manager is an artist, his, or herself, that has been in the business and been successful and knows the ins and outs of the business.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Thinking
  • Artist
  • Successful

• Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Heart
  • Occasions

• Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

  

  George Washington
  • Action
  • Hands
  • Victory

• Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

  

  Serge Lang
  • Drug
  • Disease
  • Aids

• Most of my films deal with people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. They want to change, but they need something to push them. I think it's mostly love that causes them to break their routines and move on.

  

  Wong Kar-wai
  • People
  • Moving
  • Certain

• Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Sometimes
  • Flying
  • Anger

• You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Causes
  • Busy
  • Effects

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