Cause Quotes
8820 Cause quotes by 4129 unique authors
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We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy…
— Eric Hoffer
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Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new…
— Eric Hoffer
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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people…
— Charles Lamb
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Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief…
— Cynthia Ozick
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The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into…
— Aristotle
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Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real?
— George Carlin
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The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their…
— William Hazlitt
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But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
— Edmund Spenser
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I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to…
— Muriel Spark
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I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.
— Juliana Hatfield
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I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.
— Juliana Hatfield
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Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
— William Beveridge
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Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal…
— Aviva Chomsky
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We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds…
— Eli Attie
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Cause a little trouble. It’s good for you.
— Angelina Jolie
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Give your friend cause to blush, and you will be likely to lose him.
— Publilius Syrus
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I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability…
— Li Peng
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So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up…
— Johnny Cash
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Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.
— Publilius Syrus
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O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of…
— Jonathan Swift
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The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to…
— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
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