Causes Quotes

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

I've been exploring different options for when I'm done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foundation, which is helping a bunch of worthy causes around the Northeast. I've also started SkiSpace, which is an online social network that basically deals with all things based around any snow sport.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.

It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.