Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Yukiya Amano

Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

Adora Svitak

Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.

Alex Campbell

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

Alec Baldwin

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.

We don?t know that any charges will be filed, but we have to eliminate other causes as well to remove any reasonable doubt should any charges be filed. We have to eliminate other causes, including a train going through and sparking the fire.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the massive amounts of methane produced by farm animals and the huge amounts of water, grain and other resources required to feed animals.

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

Lewis B. Smedes

Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.

One of the causes of the disaster is deforestation by thieves, but we don't know who they are.

Kofi Annan

Mr. de Soto's contacts with regional leaders, while not as complete as would have been desirable, nevertheless confirmed my concern that the new situation which had emerged following the developments of May, compounding as it does the longstanding causes of friction between India and Pakistan, may have serious implications for peace and security in the region and beyond,

Bubba causes a lot of heartache to right-handed pitchers in this park.

More research is needed to find out if Ad-37 causes obesity in humans. One study was inconclusive, because only a handful of people showed evidence of infection with Ad-37 - not enough people to draw any conclusions.

Monitoring is something I have been pursing for years. The noise from the planes causes you stop in the middle of conversations.

Obviously, any controversy in the marketplace causes companies to pause and reevaluate.

Ariel Garten

Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns, and you find yourself in a constant state of fight or flight. This causes people to be more reactionary, which further perpetuates the cycle of stress.

Michael Young

If internal executives are deliberately misrepresenting internally, and then externally the company's position, and if it's material and causes harm to investors, well that satisfies a lot of the criteria for fraud.

I find the facilities here great. The teachers I've got to get used to their lingo and they've got to get used to mine. We tend to speak slang and sometimes that causes trouble, but I'm working on it.

Tom Ellis

I feel like I'm giving back to society a little bit. There's a lot of causes out there, and 99% of them are for people. There is very little out there for the animals.

Jamie Moyer

I didn't locate well. That usually causes problems, for me especially.

I don't get involved in too many causes, but this is what I do for a living.

Charles Churchill

Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

Booboo Stewart

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Motives are causes experienced from within.

Arthur Schopenhauer

[Malebranche] teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. ( Recherches de la vérité , Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.

Bruce Lee

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

Bruce Lee

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

Edmund Burke

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

Edmund Burke

That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.

Edward Said

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

Geena Davis

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.

Clay Shirky

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.