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Quotes About Cause

People don't do things without a reason.
~ Agatha Christie
like a good detective story,' he said. 'But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that—years before sometimes—with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day.
~ Agatha Christie
I like a good detective story," he said. "But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that—years before sometimes with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day.
~ Agatha Christie
Her heart certainly failed to beat - but what caused it to fail is the question.
~ Agatha Christie
God exists! God is a Power. God manifests as the world and everything in it. God is the Cause, we are just Effects!
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
~ Al Batt
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
~ Al Goldstein
Ancient writers, we have seen, more often mention exorcism than anything else as a cause of conversion to Christianity.
~ Alan Kreider
J.B. Bury once followed Pascal in suggesting that the cause of the foundation of the Roman Empire was the length of Cleopatra's nose: had her features not been perfectly proportioned, Mark Antony would not have been entranced; had he not been entranced he would not have allied himself with Egypt against Octavian; had he not made that alliance, the battle of Actium would not have been fought—and so on.
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.
~ Heather Brooke
If you understand cause and effect, it brings about a set of insights that leads you to a very different place. The knowledge will persuade you that the market isn't organized by customer category or by product category. If you understand the job that consumers need to complete, you can articulate all of the experiences in that job.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
From the beginning, I conceptualised Phenomenal Woman as a social-impact initiative. I knew that the campaign wasn't really about a cool T-shirt, but rather using the T-shirt to benefit and amplify a cause.
~ Meena Harris
It's a human phenomenon that there has to be a reason for everything. There almost never is.
~ Theo Epstein
There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.
~ Eva Longoria
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
~ Joseph de Maistre
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
~ Thomas Sowell
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.
~ Joe Lieberman
There is no doubt our earth is warming and our seas rising - or that humankind is the cause. There is no evidence to refute this - or any genuine scientific counterargument in the climate change debate.
~ Bill Shorten
It doesn't make sense to argue about how much global warming is caused by man - whether it's 5 percent or 50 percent.
~ Lisa Murkowski
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
De qué sirve atribuir a los sucesos de la vida la causa de la desdicha que está realmente dentro de ti? ¿Qué felicidad puedes obtener de las cosas que te son ajenas? Y cuando la obtengas, ¿cuánto durará?
~ Ramana Maharshi
In seeking to uncover the causes of an event, ask yourself: who stands to benefit from it?
~ Ramez Naam
The way to find the cause of an event is to understand who had the most to gain from it.
~ Ramez Naam