Quotes About Causing

If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.

Susan laughed. I always loved the sound of her laughter. And to have caused it was worth the west side of heaven.

I felt a strange delight in causing my decay.

There is a natural human tendency to dislike a person who brings us unpleasant information, even when that person did not cause the bad news.

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

But none of these drugs had been developed after scientists had identified any disease process or brain abnormality that might have been causing these symptoms.

These emotional addictions cause us to become preoccupied by whatever we think might be causing the upset in our environment—whether it be "some one" or "some thing"—and as a result the survival gene switches on. Now we're living in a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A veces es asombroso el daño que podemos causar sin proponérnoslo

I mean, it's ridiculous," Dhuey says. "It's outlandish that our arbitrary choice of cutoff dates is causing these long-lasting effects

Our politicians debate this, but our scientists don't. A huge majority of climate scientists say climate change is happening. They say we're causing it and we need to do something about it before it has a terrible effect on all of us.

In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one.

If Wake and Vredenburg were correct, then those of us alive today not only are witnessing one of the rarest events in life's history, we are also causing it.

Motivation is bullshit, if you ask me this country could use a little less motivation. The people who are motivated are the ones who are causing all the trouble! Stock swindlers, serial killers, child molesters, Christian conservatives? These people are highly motivated, highly motivated. I think motivation is overrated, you show me some lazy prick who's lying around all day watching game shows and stroking his penis and I'll show you someone who's not causing any fucking trouble ok?

In the first list, the agent applies force to the substance and the surface simultaneously, by pushing one against the other. In the second, the agent allows gravity to do the work. It's the difference between causing and letting, between acting on something directly and acting on it via an intermediary force, between expecting something to change as one is doing something in real time and expecting it to change shortly after one has done something.

Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.

The jury is still out on whether humans are causing climate change.

The recent spate of disasters has translated into such spectacular profits that many people around the world have come to the same conclusion: the rich and powerful must be deliberately causing the catastrophes so that they can exploit them.

Obama and his staff's sheer disrespect for the presidency is probably causing the Gipper to spin in his grave.

Cabaud was charged with "willfully and knowingly causing and allowing the violations of the law" that Warms and Abbott were charged with.

This hit-and-run approach to problem-solving begets all sorts of oddities—including, often, a chain of solutions causing problems requiring solutions, ad infinitum.

My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it.

Ever to be emphasized, however, is the reality that God's "seeing" is not the same thing as His "causing" something to happen.7

he wondered if, in his effort to get to safety, he wasn't fleeing from a wreck but causing it.