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.
~By Judd Nelson ~
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
~By Daryl Hall ~
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
~By Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~
I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
~By Brent Spiner ~
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.
~By Christopher Shays ~
I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming.
~By Uberto Crescenti ~
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.
~By Johannes P. Muller ~
Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.
~By Ali Hoseini Khamenei ~
You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
~By Vicente Fox ~
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
~By William Gilbert ~
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
~By Freya Stark ~
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.
~By Ed Belfour ~
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
~By William Arthur Ward ~
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.
~By Ed Markey ~
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.
~By Norman Douglas ~
Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
~By Virgil ~
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.
~By Edward Bach ~
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.
~By Gerald Clarke ~
It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
~By Edwin Armstrong ~
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
~By Doris Lessing ~
If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.
~By Fatos Nano ~
Psychiatry causes so much death.
~By Kate Millett ~
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
~By Beatrix Potter ~
By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
~By Chauncey Wright ~
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
~By Jean Piaget ~
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.
~By Charles Sturt ~
Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
~By Antonin Artaud ~
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
~By Georges Rouault ~
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
~By Saint Ignatius ~
Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?
~By Dorothy Thompson ~
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
~By Chanakya ~
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.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.
~By Claudia Christian ~
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
~By Francesco Guicciardini ~
A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
~By Plato ~
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.
~By Edwin Armstrong ~
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.
~By Ashley Montague ~
Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
~By Keith Henson ~
It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.
~By Jeff Ament ~
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
~By Tony Robbins ~
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
~By Billy Sunday ~
I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
~By Hal Holbrook ~
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
~By Harold Bloom ~
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
~By Avicenna ~
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
~By Graham Chapman ~
Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
~By Meir Kahane ~
The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.
~By Robert Aldrich ~
In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
~By Shelley Winters ~
All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
~By Shelley Winters ~
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
~By Frank Dobson ~
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Grief causes suffering and disease.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
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.
~By Gerald McRaney ~
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
~By Richard Price ~
Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
~By Cat Stevens ~
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.
~By William E. Simon ~
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
~By Jack L. Chalker ~
It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
In some causes silence is dangerous.
~By Saint Ambrose ~
So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
~By Norman Lear ~
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
~By Matthew Arnold ~
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
~By Thucydides ~
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
~By Alexander Pope ~
By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.
~By Michael Behe ~
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
~By Johnny Cash ~
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.
~By Janet Flanner ~
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
~By Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus ~
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
~By David Brooks ~
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
~By Avicenna ~
But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.
~By Paul Farmer ~
It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.
~By Michael Ignatieff ~
The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.
~By Kit Bond ~
I don't know if people understand that there are different ways to raise money for great causes.
~By Rick Dees ~
It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.
~By Howard Baker ~
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
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.
~By Elihu Root ~
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
~By Elihu Root ~
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children.
~By Roma Downey ~
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