Quotes About Cause

People do not really want to be devoted to Jesus, but only to the cause He started.

You must maintain continual watchfulness so that nothing arises in your life that would cause you shame. ".

That there is, besides a necessity of cause and effect — which I may call the logic of space — another necessity, an organic necessity in life, that of Destiny — the logic of time — is a fact of the deepest inward certainty

The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.

Whether it's just a pesky little annoying behavior you'd like to tweak or a major problem that has you at the end of your rope, you must shift your thinking in order to look at the possible true cause, as well as determine whether its truly a behavior problem or a normal behavior that needs a better alternative.

When we allow emotions to trump the intellect, we swallow "facts" that are demonstrably untrue, letting them fly around unchallenged in a mockery of civic discourse, supporting public figures who promote fictions to further their own cause.

Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.

Zealots are one-trick ponies. They love nothing so much as their own cause. Don't get in their way without expecting to be hurt.

She believed the key element to patriotism was display; that it was all about being seen to support a cause, being seen to wave a flag.

First, ask yourself why you feel that way. What is the exact moment and action that caused the feeling? Is it something big, or small and isolated?

The fixer is the source of the ailment, not the solution.

When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?

When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of the future do you then cause to happen?

Was it prediction? Had she had a proper vision? Or was it a command, as it so often feels in the case of the prophetic? When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".

No fue solo culpa mía —puntualicé. —No se trata de ser o no culpable —razonó Manet—. Un árbol no provoca una tormenta, pero cualquier idiota sabe dónde va a caer el rayo.

Fault isn't the issue. A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

Un árbol no provoca una tormenta, pero cualquier idiota sabe dónde va a caer el rayo.

I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.

In the end, the problem was not grief. Grief was the first cause, perhaps, but it soon gave way to something else - something more tangible, more calculable in its effects, more violent in the damage it produced. A whole chain of forces had been set in motion, and at a certain point I began to wobble, to fly in greater and greater circles around myself, until at last I spun out of orbit.

but a noble cause demanded noble behavior from its advocates, something finer and more self-controlled than run-of-the-mill insults and cheap, adolescent shots.

She had genuinely been onside at first, and so when David Cummings had offered to pay her "expenses," which had sorted her worries about keeping her old mum in the care home she liked, she'd only hesitated a moment: she was being paid to support a cause she supported anyway. They could waste their money on her if they liked. This was obviously just how grown-ups did things.

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

say "From nothing comes nothing - Nihil ex nihilo!