Causes Quotes - Page 39

• Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.

  Julie Benz

  Thinking, People, The End Of The Day

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• We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Reason Why, Election

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• The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Goal, Physicians

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.

  James Gilligan

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

  Lauryn Hill

  Broken Heart, Letting Go, Hurt

  Song: EX FACTOR Album 'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill', Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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• Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Discovery, Physicians, Disease

  Tusculanarum Disputationum Bk III, Ch. 3

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• Polygamy causes a lot of strife

  Yoshiko Sakurai

  Strife, Polygamy

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• I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Women, Arguing

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• Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law,
  The work of heaven and of the first cause.

  Su Shi

  Art, Law, Heaven

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• Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Debt, Want, Financial

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• Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Men, Giving, Support

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• Showing kindness causes oxytocin release in the recipient that motives him or her to be kind to others. You can start this virtuous cycle in the simplest ways, for example, by giving someone a hug. I send you a hug!

  Paul J. Zak

  Kindness, Oxytocin, Giving

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• The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws of nature and lets them run like clockwork, indifferent to the fate of the people subject to them.

  Elizabeth S. Anderson

  Running, Philosophical, Fate

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• Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

  John Dickinson

  Perfect, Justice, Unions

  Declaration of reasons for taking up arms against England, presented to Congress, 8 July 1775, in C. J. Stillè 'The Life and Times of John Dickinson' (1891) ch. 5

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• Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Two, Justice, Believer

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

  Diane Ackerman

  Brain, Trying, Mystery

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

  Anthony de Mello

  Emotional, Attachment, Names

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• There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, and fills the inter spaces of the universe.
  
  A thought in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
  
  Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Men, Thinking, Space

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.217, Penguin

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• I think the one worthy cause I can identify myself with is valuing education. Because I believe education is something that cannot be taken away from you. You can have money, you can have fame, but in the end, it can be taken from you. But education will always be there to help you.

  Shamcey Supsup

  Believe, Taken, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Shamcey Supsup from Apr 11, 2011

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• The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Lying, Mind, Suffering

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• Beloved Friends, we may well continue to praise God, for our God continues to give us causes for praise!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, May, Beloved

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 39: Sermons 2289-2341”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

  Harold Bloom

  Teacher, Thinking, Trying

  Harold Bloom, Robert Moynihan (1986). “A Recent imagining: interviews with Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Paul De Man”

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• Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poetry, Odes, Logic

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Walter Jackson Bate (1984). “Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• ...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

  Rene Dubos

  Dark, Age, May

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• Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world, affecting 17.6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13.6%. ...No one..really knows the extent of the parasites and the diseases they cause.

  Ruth Winter

  Dark, Age, Population

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