Quotes About Cause

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that is wants to live humbly for one.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

for most people, the cause of a mistake matters. The

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.

This is because, second, sometimes the winners won for reasons other than the mere

If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you are told that the king died and that the queen then died of grief, that is a story.

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

It is unnecessary, he added, to pressure students to produce speech or writing in the second language before they are ready, because "output" contributes nothing. It is the result of second language acquisition, not the cause. In fact, putting pressure on children to speak or write can be counterproductive, increasing stress and raising the affective filter.

In our view, voting was an effect rather than a cause of the megapolitical conditions that brought forth the modern nation-state.

All things happen for a purpose.

Everything we do is for a reason.

For Ignatius, ingratitude was the "most abominable of sins," indeed "the cause, the beginning and origin of all sins and misfortunes.

There is a reason and not a reason for everything.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth and falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some new decision, offering each bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever twixt that darkness and that light.

that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that, government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

When a leader invokes blood to arouse us to support him and his cause, it is time for us to be on our guard, to think of those long millennia when our ancestor's lives were safeguard by blood and sacrifice.

Is that all it means to you?" Marthe said. "To me it means there is no disease. It means it's curable, provided you root out the cause of it. Is it not worth an effort? No one would bring back a man doomed to blindness, but what if he isn't?

Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the Universe say that this sort of thing is going on all the time, but that we are powerless to prevent it. 'It's just life,' they say.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

To get at the cause for a thing, we must study the effect.

But all the same, it is true what I say--artificial conditions bring about their natural reaction.

you prefer to continue knitting, that is your decision. If you prefer to serve the cause of justice, I hope that you may at least find it interesting. Let justice roll down like waters. And righteousness like an everlasting stream. Amos.