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Quotes About Cause

Is it that when these events are in chronological order they are not propelled forward by cause and effect, by need and satisfaction, they do not spring ahead with their own energy but are simply dragged forward by the passage of time?
~ Lydia Davis
Today I am feeling that chronological order is not a good thing, even if it is easier, and that I should break it up. Is it that when these events are in chronological order they are not propelled forward by cause and effect, by need and satisfaction, they do not spring ahead with their own energy but are simply dragged forward by the passage of time?
~ Lydia Davis
There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.
~ Unknown
Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the secret cause of life evolution has nothing to do. A man, therefore, may be a materialistic evolutionist or a theistic evolutionist; that is, he may believe that the cause is some single unintelligent impersonal force, or he may believe that the cause is a wise and beneficent God.
~ Lyman Abbott
prudent man or woman understands that all of life is connected. He is aware of the cause-and-effect relationship between what he chooses today and what he experiences tomorrow . .
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Still another and all-sufficient answer to the argument that the use of spirituous liquors tends to poverty, is that, as a general rule, it puts the effect before the cause. It assumes that it is the use of the liquors that causes the poverty, instead of its being the poverty that causes the use of the liquors.
~ Lysander Spooner
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
~ Mac Thornberry
You are ill, correct? The warmth and shivering had no other particular cause, did it?" "Not only am I ill, I am sure I am contagious.
~ Madeline Hunter
My friend, any way that they can make Americans hate Americans helps the cause. They would like to make Rockwell stronger too. That is the heart of contemporary propaganda, amigo, to strengthen ignorant terrible men who believe themselves to be perfect patriots.
~ John D. MacDonald
When it comes to helping another human being, you can treat the symptoms or you can treat the cause. Most people dabble in symptom management, and that is why most people don't seem to be getting better.
~ John Eldredge
It is not so much that he is economical with the truth as that he lacks the normal understanding of it. For him truth is whatever serves the cause, and when he engages in what is commonly judged to be deception he is only anticipating the new world that he is helping to bring about .
~ John Gray
Blue still did not organize a response to the emergency. Instead, the senior Public Health Service officer in charge of the city of Washington reiterated to the press that there was no cause for alarm.
~ John M. Barry
We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.
~ Horace Mann
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education.
~ Horace Mann
Understanding proximate cause is also like understanding your mother: It can take years and then, just when you think you have her figured out, she surprises you.
~ Unknown
Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.
~ Unknown
Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.
~ Rhonda Byrne
Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.
~ Unknown
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
~ Chris Hedges
As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
~ Winston Churchill
The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.
~ Unknown
Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could
~ Carrie Nation
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
~ John Locke
United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower