Famous Quotes & Sayings

When people feel they have nothing and are hopeless, then that actually causes an increase in the likelihood that they'll return to the life of crime,

When a child's growth is stunted, it causes grief; when he starts to grow normally, it causes joy, when the growth is abnormal, it causes grief again.

This will be a major success for EU foreign policy if it can lead to a proper political dialogue on the causes which have led to some of the recent violence.

David Wong

Cynicism does not cause inaction..

David O. Selznick

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

Dante Alighieri

If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!

Dante Alighieri

If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.

Dante Alighieri

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Dan Quayle

The cause of the riots were the rioters

Irving Kirsch

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

Stephen Jay Gould

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

Clare Short

The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.

Emayatzy Corinealdi

I'm a tomboy at the end of the day, so anything that causes me to have to run around, fight people, roll in the dirt, hop a fence - I'm all for it. So I really would love to do an action film.

The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

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

Extreme warm temperatures early on and wet, heavy rains could change that. That's what usually causes flooding.

Ludwig von Mises

The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.

Hillary Scott

If I had to name one thing that probably causes more conflict within the band, it's probably the fact that I'm the girl, and it takes much longer with hair and makeup and wardrobe. But they've gotten used to it. It's one of those things I think they realize that when they say she'll be ready in 10 minutes, it normally means 15 or 20.

Joe Biden

Methamphetamine causes much more destruction in a much shorter period of time,

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their 'out of sight, out of mind' nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts.

We don't have all the answers. We think our work has pointed out that the mammography paradox is real. We are confident we understand what causes it. We have identified a problem -- a mechanism that is testable. We have not found a solution. But identifying the problem is a major step in the right direction.

We have strongly held feelings about how we want to comply. ... The two years they spent hiding everything causes everyone to have concern.

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

We have a much better insight into what causes the strongest, most dangerous solar flares, and how to develop forecasts that can predict an 'all clear' for significant space weather, for longer periods.

Though the causes may be numerous and valid, the existence of the gap simply means that the completion of the U.S.-funded portion of Iraq's reconstruction will leave many planned projects on the drawing board.

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.

Our initial investigations of each incident has found different root causes for each one, which would not indicate a systemic issue.

Our proposal would create a select national commission on youth violence whose mandate would be to deliberately examine the many possible root causes of this crisis.

That causes very hard talk, and people get anxious.

That causes us to have some problems with implementing.

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.

Daniel Kahneman

You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.