Quotes About Cause

I have always been a rebel without a cause.

I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!

With my size and receiving skills, I would hope I could cause some matchup problems for defenses, and that some team sees that.

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

Ask a celebrity what social cause he or she wants to take up, and many would say utopic things. For me, however, the decision is very clear... I want to do something for children, a category of people I am genuinely fond of.

Whatever its cause, the media's general Hillary Clinton loathing is a foundational truth that would define her as president.

Surely this youth will not serve our ends,' said I, 'for he weeps.' The old woman smiled. 'Past tears are present strength,' said she. 'Oh!' said my brother, 'I saw you weep once over an eagle you shot.' 'That was because it was so like you, brother,' I replied; 'but indeed, this youth may have better cause for tears than that—I was wrong.' 'Wait

As through the hard rock go the branching silver veins; as into the solid land run the creeks and gulfs from the unresting sea; as the lights and influences of the upper worlds sink silently through the earth's atmosphere; so doth Faerie invade the world of men, and sometimes startle the common eye with an association as of cause and effect, when between the two no connecting links can be traced.

A linked pair of writing dictums: "Don't make things happen for no reason" and "Having made something happen, make it matter.")

Every American who served in Iraq helped to make our nation safer, gave twenty-five million people the chance to live in freedom, and changed the direction of the Middle East for generations to come. There are things we got wrong in Iraq, but that cause is eternally right.

If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.

I plead your cause? What the devil gave you the notion that I plead any causes but my own? Believe me, it's wide of the mark! You can't be such a - such a care-for-nobody as to refuse to lift as much as a finger to assist me! said Stacy indignantly. Oh you're quite mistaken! I am precisely such a care-for-nobody.

As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.

In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art.

All together now: Women don't cause sexual harassment, harassers do.

Anyone wanting to cause trouble in the Mirador should be fascinated by Felix.

You have been put too much to literary work,' he said on one of his visits, 'and that is the cause of your complaint.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Cuanto más materialmente inexplicables resultan la propia devoción y compromiso por una causa sagrada -es decir, cuanto más absurdas son-, mayor es la fe que otros depositan en ella y más compromiso genera esta fe por parte de ellos.

The chief cause of problems is solutions. — Eric Sevareid

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming.

The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.