Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sathya Baba

Ignorance is the most important cause of sorrow.

If you are down 10 percent when the demand for diesel is at a peak, that causes a problem. I think that everybody who needs to get it will get it. I don't know about everybody who wants it.

If we sell large quantities of U.S. treasuries, it would cause the price to plunge. We're not going to do that.

If we were to find that somebody did get through a checkpoint with pepper spray or any other kinds of spray for that matter that are prohibited, certainly there would be cause for concern. If passengers think they got through security accidentally with something that they shouldn't have, we invite them to please come back to the checkpoint and tell our supervisors, tell our managers at the checkpoints so that we can take immediate action.

If this would have happened while he was driving down the highway, it could have definitely caused some injuries.

the pain was so sharp that it made me utter several moans; and so excessive was the sweetness caused me by this intense pain that one can never wish to lose it.

The pain of being shot and losing control of the van caused the gun to go off.

The pain caused to the parents by this dreadful sequence of events is unforgivable. I am deeply sorry.

The rain on Sunday night combined with the warm temperatures have caused us to lose the over-seed on our greens and you can't have that happen. With a cold front moving through the next couple of days with more wind, the greens should get faster.

When they heat treated it ... they got about 100 degrees hotter than they were supposed to get and because of that, it caused this change in the metal. You wouldn't want to hook one of these tethers to a piece of material you are not confident in.

George H. W. Bush

We meet in Sinai at a moment of promise for the cause of peace in the Middle East.

Mike Wallace

We may never know the exact cause of the fire.

We may be at the early stages of realizing that it is not being caused by the evil oil companies but that we do have a real energy crisis.

We made several adjustments on defense and ran our half-court trap fairly well. That caused major havoc for them and got the temp going.

Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.

Paul Davis

Huge increases in the last few days ... have caused considerable hardships and some fear for the people of Maine. They need help and help must be given to them.

Chris Dodd

Hurricane Katrina caused already skyrocketing energy prices to soar even higher, and as the months grow colder, it could leave many low-income families and seniors struggling to heat their homes,

Laura Bush

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history and has caused unimaginable devastation and heartbreak throughout the Gulf Coast region. A vast coastline of towns and communities has been decimated,

He was one of the great sons of New Mexico. He was the first to really start championing the cause of Hispanic people.

He was found in the pool, but the cause of death is still under investigation,

William Murray

He was not a stranger to her nor was she a stranger to him and I think things like that caused the jury to wonder whether or not he would have been the person that killed her,

I was talking to somebody about this the other night. How would you guard us? Do you put a big man on Courtney and hope to double down and cause her to turn it over. But there are so many other people who can score. What do you do?

I wouldn't say there's great cause for concern here. While it may have been a trend, I don't see it happening. ... It's not going to be a continuing trend.

Woodrow Wilson

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail

Woodrow Wilson

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

Robert Nelson

If we ever have a pandemic of avian flu, which is a debatable point, people want to know that they have a drug that will not cause more (harm) than the flu itself. There is no evidence that this will.

Tony Blair

If they pull out it would be catastrophic for the people of Iraq and the cause of democracy and it would be a win for terrorists,

If the yaw damper fails, this has the potential of pushing the rudder further than the pilots intended it to go, which could cause control problems,

If we can get motorists to view them as a deterrent to drinking and driving, that's great. But at the same time we don't want them to cause a distraction.

If this goes on for five to seven nights, the original cause -- which may be very legitimate -- has disappeared, but the learned response persists.

I have done a couple of investigations where aerial fireworks have been the major cause of the fire.

Terry Lewis

If we all had that kind of passion about our cause - whatever our cause is - I think this world would be a better place.

John Sparkman

If that was to occur, that is going to cause major structural damage and could cause loss of life. It's my responsibility to make sure everyone is safe.