Cause and effect Quote by Rebecca Solnit Download Open image ““Sometimes, cause and effect are centuries apart”” — Rebecca Solnit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cause and effect
“When two things have frequently existed in close temporal contiguity, either comes in time to cause the other.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Cause and effect are linked that way in a twisted form. You can pile up all the worlds you like and the twisting will… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first. Or perhaps… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“We live in a country where causes are always seen but never effects.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“happened over a short period of time, things that were linked to the past and were to have considerable impact on the future.” — Jasper Cooper Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects for every cause.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series of causes… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“This world has been changing from time immemorial. But because it is “round” (subject to cycle of cause-effect), one cannot find an end to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“We have an infinite ability to make an impact but we have a finite time here to make a difference and to leave some… — Thomas Narofsky Copy Share Image
“A timeline is a linear representation of cause and effect, changing one event alters all that follow.” — J. W. Lord Copy Share Image
“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.” — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“One cannot change his current life span but one can change his next life form. The ticket can be changed but death cannot be… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“One of the protestor's sign catches my eye. HOMISEXUALITY IS THE DEVIL'S WORK, it says. And once again I think about how people use… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next to us… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There are two types of purushartha (self effort): those with wrong beliefs have self effort (purusharth) with illusory vision and the enlightened one’s have… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The Law of Karma is also called the Law of Cause and Effect, Action and Reaction and also as you sow, so shall you… — Sham Hinduja Copy Share Image
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. Mind… — James Allen Copy Share Image
In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“When people conclude that anger causes abuse, they are confusing cause and effect. Ray was not abusive because he was angry; he was angry… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image