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 ~
We are witnessing a slow, steady takeover of our true freedoms. We are becoming a socialist nation, and whoever can't see this is probably hoping it isn't true. If we permit Mr. Obama to take over all our industries, if we permit him to raise our taxes to support unconstitutional causes, then we will be in default. This great America will become a paralyzed nation.
~By Jon Voight ~
The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
~By Isaac Newton ~
This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
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 ~
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 ~
Psychiatry causes so much death.
~By Kate Millett ~
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 ~
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 ~
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
~By Billy Joel ~
So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.
~By Norman Lear ~
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 ~
Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
~By Emile Durkheim ~
After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.
~By John Owen ~
Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
~By Shelley Winters ~
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
~By E. M. Forster ~
I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
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 ~
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
~By Thucydides ~
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 ~
It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
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 ~
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 ~
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
~By Raymond Holliwell ~
The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.
~By Kit Bond ~
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
~By Claude Bernard ~
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
~By William O. Douglas ~
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
~By James Tobin ~
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 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.
~By William Baldwin ~
Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.
~By Anacharsis ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
~By Charles Fillmore ~
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
~By Fletcher Knebel ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Margaret Chase Smith ~
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
~By Frances Wright ~
There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.
~By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt ~
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
~By Matthew Arnold ~
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
I don't know if people understand that there are different ways to raise money for great causes.
~By Rick Dees ~
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 ~
Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
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 ~
I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.
~By Brent Spiner ~
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
~By Tony Blair ~
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.
~By Jared Diamond ~
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 ~
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
~By E. M. Forster ~
You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
~By Johnny Cash ~
And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
~By Michael Berryman ~
The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes.
~By Ayatollah Khamenei ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
~By Neville Chamberlain ~
A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
~By Billy Sunday ~
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 ~
Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.
~By Serge Lang ~
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
~By Edwin Armstrong ~
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
~By John Barrymore ~
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
~By Anthony Minghella ~
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
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 ~
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
~By Chanakya ~
I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.
~By Henry A. Wise ~
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 ~
A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
~By Alexander Pope ~
I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
~By Pat Boone ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
~By Jules Renard ~
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 ~
I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.
~By Rob Mariano ~
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
I'm not fighting any causes. I'm black, everybody can see that, but I am a storyteller for the masses.
~By Jackie Torrence ~
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
~By John Tillotson ~
Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?
~By Paul Ryan ~
Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
~By Meir Kahane ~
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 ~
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