Causes Quotes - Page 29

• Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.

  Stuart Kauffman

  Behavior, Structure, Regimes

  Stuart A. Kauffman (1993). “The Origins of Order: Self Organization and Selection in Evolution”, p.232, Oxford University Press, USA

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Intellectual, One Day, Speech

  61 Copy quote

• A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

  John Wanamaker

  Men, Desire

  16 Copy quote

• Portland can put the champagne away and get out the bottled water, 'cause that's all they're gonna drink on their way home!

  Chick Hearn

  Home, Water, Portland

  8 Copy quote

• The way the universe evolves in consciousness of itself and causes itself to be. We are just this blessed consciousness, nothing more, nothing less. We are the light inside light that fuses into the atoms of our bodies; we are the fire that whirls across the stellar deeps and dances all things into being.

  David Zindell

  Blessed, Fire, Light

  "The War in Heaven". Book by David Zindell, January 1998.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Hard Work, Fighting, Men

  11 Copy quote

• Big Data allows us to see patterns we have never seen before. This will clearly show us interdependence and connections that will lead to a new way of looking at everything. It will let us see the ‘real-time’ cause and effect of our actions. What we buy, eat, donate, and throw away will be visual in a real-time map to see the ripple effect of our actions. That could only lead to mores-conscious behavior.

  Tiffany Shlain

  Real, Data, Connections

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  Alexei Panshin

  Opportunity, Men, Impact

  Alexei Panshin, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon (1968). “Rite of passage”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pieces, by a blade of light. It is safest to assume that our throats have already been slit, that the slightest alteration in our postures will cause the painless severance of our heads.

  Ben Lerner

  Dream, Moving, Cutting

  Ben Lerner (2016). “No Art: Poems”, p.114, Granta Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away still returned, lost and found. It could do all that and still you lived, though according to some, only just.

  Sally Gardner

  Heart, Ideas, Broken

  4 Copy quote

• Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

  David D. Burns

  Kindness, Anxiety

  13 Copy quote

• The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.

  Ted Rall

  Hero, Fighting, Iraq

  4 Copy quote

• Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria.

  Janet Parshall

  Boys, Rays, Comfort

  4 Copy quote

• Alternative healing does not always offer a quick fix of a symptom, but it does offer a permanent healing that resonates beyond physical well-being. It creates a total uplift in attitude, enhanced spiritual awareness, and so much more that will change the way you appreciate life everyday. Embracing alternative healing by focusing on the cause and trusting the process as it unfolds will be a journey that can be trying or difficult at times, but it will always be extremely rewarding.

  Alice McCall

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Attitude

  6 Copy quote

• Screw normal. You know why? 'Cause if you're normal, the crowd will accept you. But if you're deranged, the crowd will make you their leader.

  Christopher Titus

  Leader, Crowds, Normal

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cause I'm Irish, and everyone remembers me.

  Niall Horan

  Remember, Remember Me

  35 Copy quote

• Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

  Dennis Miller

  Thinking, Games, Interesting

  4 Copy quote

• Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think so. All summations have a beginning, all effect has a story, all kindness beings with the sown seed. Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of light is the crossroads of - indolence, or action. Be ignited or be gone.

  Mary Oliver

  Kindness, Thinking, Light

  5 Copy quote

• No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

  Learned Hand

  Support, Doubt, Devil

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving, Humanity, Arena

  4 Copy quote

• I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

  Heath Ledger

  Loneliness, Simple, Insomnia

  101 Copy quote

• One day man will connect his
  apparatus to the very wheel work of
  the universe. The very forces that
  motivate the planets in their orbits
  and cause them to rotate will rotate
  his own machinery.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, One Day, Orbit

  38 Copy quote

• If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

  Dalai Lama

  Peaceful, Mind, States

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.51, Penguin Books India

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you wake up everyday
  Please don't throw your dreams away
  Hold them close to your heart
  'Cause we are all a part of
  the ordinary miracle

  Sarah McLachlan

  Dream, Heart, Miracle

  Song: Ordinary Miracle

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

  George Washington

  Country, Men, Brave

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “(v. 9) Containing correspondence from the time of resigning his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, to that of his inauguration as president”, p.209

  23 Copy quote

  Show source