Causes Quotes
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... For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming. Even though atmospheric CO2 has continued to accumulate - up about 4 percent in the last 10 years - the global mean temperature has remained flat. That should raise obvious questions about CO2 being the cause of climate change.
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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
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We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.
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I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
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Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.
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Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
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...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.
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The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.
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Angels are quite ample cause to cry.
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Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.
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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.
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No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.
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You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.
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The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.
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We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.
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The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
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Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
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If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have impact. No death should be like nose blowing. Death is important enough that it should affect the person who causes it.
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Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.
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A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.
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A feeling that greater possessions, no matter of what kind they may be, will of themselves bring contentment or happiness, is a misunderstanding. No person, place, or thing can give you happiness. They may give you cause for happiness and a feeling of contentment, but the JOY of Living comes from within.
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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.
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Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.
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Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.
