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Cause Quotes


"The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound."


"In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels."


"Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me."


"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."


"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."


"The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past."


"The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights."


"I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy."


"I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level."


"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."


"To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery."


"I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes."


"I've always written about things that cause me to feel something."


"I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in."


"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship."


"Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators."


"By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning."


"And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting."


"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."


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


"We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies."


"I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up."


"I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down."


"If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game."


"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."


"It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice."


"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."


"We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary."
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