Cause quotes

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Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

- Phaedrus

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

- Thomas Jefferson

I can tell if someone is talking to me because I'm on "Friends" or cause they just think I'm neat. You know I don't think I've ever spent more than five or ten minutes with somebody who was ogling me because they recognized me from the show.

- Matthew Perry

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

- C. S. Lewis

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

- Wendell Phillips

In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.

- John Abizaid

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

- John Cleveland

We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.

- Sam Walton

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

- John Morley

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.

- James J. Gibson

A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

- William C. Bryant

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

- Layne Staley

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

- George Weah

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

- Robert Smithson

I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.

- Charisma Carpenter

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

- Jeanette Winterson

For every expert that says humans are the cause of "climate change" there are 10 more who say we aren't.

- Bradley A. Blakeman

Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.

- Chris Patten

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

- Homer

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

- Victor Hugo

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

- John Locke

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

- Wayne Kramer

I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.

- Gabriel Byrne

To set the cause above renown.

- Henry Newbolt

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.

- Adam Rickitt

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

- Peter Marshall

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

- Sun Myung Moon

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

- Sophocles

He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways.

- Johannes P. Muller