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Quotes About Cause

Tú lo sabías, verdad? ¿Que soy parte de ti? ¡Caliente, caliente, caliente! ¿Que soy la causa de que todo salga mal? ¿De que las cosas sean como son?
~ William Golding
Nazism appeared to be a dying cause. It had mushroomed on the country's misfortunes; now that the nation's outlook was suddenly bright it was rapidly withering away. Or so most Germans and foreign observers believed.
~ William L. Shirer
No j?va is ever born; there exists no cause to produce it. That is the highest Truth, where nothing is ever born'.
~ Chinmayananda
Life should be about purpose and meaning and cause and fulfilling our personal, God-given destinies.
~ Chris Brady
I suppose all of us have to look at our job and ask how it now serves the cause I suppose one is lucky if a simple answer presents itself.
~ Chris Cleave
Perhaps modern esteem for these figures serves as a reminder that, though statesmen may have to struggle mightily to advance their cause, and though they may lose on an issue or come out on the wrong side in the judgment of history, their principled determination is sufficient to win them a place in people's hearts, long after they are gone.
~ Chris DeRose
Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
~ Chris Hedges
Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration.
~ Chris Oyakhilome
The doctor] asked if I knew what might be causing my headaches. I looked her squarely in the face and said to her directly: "Yes, I hate my mother." That was the end of the interview. That was also the end of my visits to the doctor. That was not the end of my headaches.
~ Christina Crawford
Karma is simply the law of cause and effect. If you plant an apple seed, you don't a get a mango tree. If we practice hatred or greed, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly. If we practice awareness or loving-kindness, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly." "We are heirs to the results of our actions, to the intentions we bring to every moment we initiate. We make ripples upon the ocean of the universe through our very presence.
~ Christina Feldman
Judge me, O Reader, and distinguish my cause from the nation that reads not; deliver me from the unjust and ignorant man.
~ Christine Brooke-Rose
we have given you a world as contradictory as a female, as cabbalistic as a male, a conscienceless hermaphrodite who plays heaven off against hell, hell off against heaven, revolving in the ballroom of the skies glittering with conflict as diamonds: we have wasted paradox and mystery on you when all you ask us for is cause and effect! A copy of your birth-certificate was all you needed to make you at peace with Creation. How uneconomical the whole thing's been.
~ Christopher Fry
People accuse therapists of seeing abuse where there isn't any; of fabricating memories for their patients. Maybe this is true. But if so, it's because neurosis without a perceptible cause is very hard to accept. How does one fix a problem that arose from nothing?
~ Heidi Julavits
but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you.
~ Heidi Julavits
Emily Williamson never thought she would find commitment so liberating, that her conviction to her cause could promote such happiness within her. She stands in the London sunshine, watching Mrs. Phillips model as a heron, and she feels nothing but gratitude and wonder at the beauty of life.
~ Helen Humphreys
Miranda found sunflowers very ugly, and yellow made her so nervous that she suspected it was the cause of war.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently, and equitably each effect to its cause.
~ HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY
El presente sólo se forma del pasado, y lo que se encuentra en el efecto estaba ya en la causa.
~ Henry Bergson
What is that common cause? There is one sufficient cause that is common to all nations; and that is the appropriation as the property of some of that natural element on which and from which all must live. Take
~ Henry George
What is that common cause? There is one sufficient cause that is common to all nations; and that is the appropriation as the property of some of that natural element on which and from which all must live. Take that fact I have spoken of, that appalling fact that, even now, it is harder to live than it was in the ages dark and rude five centuries ago—how do you explain it? There is no difficulty in finding the cause.
~ Henry George
To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honour, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes; To count the life of battle good, And dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood That binds the brave of all the earth. - Henry Newbolt
~ Henry Newbolt
You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.
~ Henry Rollins
When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it?
~ Leo Tolstoy
And so there was no single cause for war, but it happened simply because it had to happen
~ Leo Tolstoy