Famous Quotes & Sayings

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Ellen Key

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

The pink slip is precipitously delivered. It's not as if the worker caused the job loss, nor is it that they even wanted to shift gears or that they were tired,

The overall damage caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita has shown them to be the greatest natural disasters to oil and gas development in this history of the Gulf of Mexico.

The pause in economic growth and the drop in confidence will probably cause the Fed to tighten later rather than sooner. The earliest I can see them tightening is the end of June, and they could quite possibly wait until August.

The pathogens that cause disease have conditions in which they live, just like we do. We have to combine the physical data with what we know in the medical world.

Dave Grohl

Cause when you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

John C. Calhoun

With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without the slightest indication of abatement, he is blind who does not see, if the state of things which has caused it should be permitted to continue, that it will speedily be too late, if not to save ourselves, to save the Union.

John C. Calhoun

Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

Walter Kirn

What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment?

Richard Lamm

It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The Almighty, if necessary, may have to shake the nations to humble them and cause them to listen to the servants of the living God. Whatever is needed will come to pass.

Carl Sagan

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

Ashley Tisdale

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

The 30 percent clause could cause some harm.

The approaching hurricane season reminds us of the utter devastation that Hurricane Ivan caused when it hit the Louisiana coast last year.

The antiterrorist operation was poorly coordinated, and the question remains open whether many of the deaths were caused by Russian forces' use of indiscriminate weapons such as tank cannons and flame-throwers.

Nancy Anderson

That was incredibly misleading to our consumers, and it caused them to be alarmed about things they shouldn't be alarmed about.

That way, channels are measured sequentially ? one at a time and they are all delayed slightly in time. This is fine for most applications ? but when the phase relationship of multiple channels is important, the time delay can cause system-level problems.

That was the worst we've played. They caused a lot of that.

Ed Orgeron

That will never happen in my program. I will never do that. Too many things can happen. You can cause a fumble and pick it up and run for a touchdown.

We have a negative outlook on the company. We don't think anything will happen in 2006 to cause the rating to go up.

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.

We have already seen some evidence of this?more than anything it has caused investors to start paying attention.

We could have had just as many people line up in front of that personnel office that wanted to work. If we'd have known that was what was going to make, cause them to make the decision.

We know that some individuals who have taken these diet medications have heart values that are thick and don't function properly. They can cause the heart to perform poorly over time and become weaker over time.

Rod Steiger

I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something.

Marshawn Lynch

I've been pretty good at reading people. If you rockin' with me cause you're just a solid individual, then we're rockin'. But if you got a motive or something, I am going to probably see right through that.

Peter Singer

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.

Peter Singer

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.

Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.

Marcus Samuelsson

Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.

David Carpenter

Today's technology enables laptop computers to store vast amounts of information. Laptop computers are a high-risk target for theft and require us to take special safeguards to protect them. The capabilities of laptop computers also create significant technical vulnerabilities. For example, infrared and modem capabilities can cause data to be transferred without the users' knowledge.