Quotes About Cause

The moral, as Mr. Drawlight explained it, was that if Mr. Norrell hoped to win friends for the cause of modern magic, he must insert a great many more French windows into his house.

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.

History treats time as a chain of happenings that we humans set into motion by our own free will; its first lesson is that a first cause does not exist because, as my teachers put it back in public-school, we learn history in order to learn how to change it.

Era la guerra de una generación desprevenida; y su mayor peligro radicaba precisamente en la fe intacta de los pueblos en la justicia unilateral de su causa

I would rather discover one cause than be the King of Persia.

I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.

For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.

If one person from their fraternity is a little above average, they are celebrated as if they are the most gifted individuals. And who is enhancing their cause? It's a section of the media.

We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.

A revolutionary party is, in its essence, the party of its leader that carries out his ideology and cause, and the main thing in its building is to ensure the unitary character and inheritance of his ideology and leadership.

When the cause is just, and there's been injustice, then it's easy to kind of galvanize your emotions and confront a guy.

The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every effect must have a Cause, and design must have a Designer.

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

Uno tras otro "sacrificados", según rezaban sus lápidas pero sin decir por qué causa, por la blanca causa de la coca.

His mind turns to organizations, combinations, and arrangements -- legal or apparently legal. He attempts to remedy the evil by increasing and perpetuating the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

Losers [...] gain psychic satisfaction from belonging to a winning cause.

When we use the word "sin," we usually think of our misdeeds—actions or habits we know are wrong. But those are specific sins, and they are the result of sin, the deeper spiritual disease that infects our souls. Sin is the cause; sins are the effect. Sin is the tree; sins are the fruit. Sin is the disease; sins are the symptoms.

If we in the church want a cause to fight, let's fight sin. Let's reveal its hideousness. Let's show that Jeremiah was correct when e said: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" [Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV].

Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

The mixing of metaphors was making Myron dizzy. "Sure. I don't want to cause any problems.

Unless you find the fundamental cause and treat that, the same problem will surface later on in a different form.

The thought caused me a good deal of grief. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously.