Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Edwin Land

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

Azar Nafisi

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.

Ayn Rand

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

Ayn Rand

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.

Benjamin Disraeli

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

Elizabeth I

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

Elia Kazan

Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.

ASAP Rocky

I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

Pierce Brosnan

Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.

Philip Yancey

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.

Candice Olson

I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

Casey James

My family has had a lot of trouble with cancer in particular. There are a lot of great causes out there but for me to pick one I would say anything that is cancer related.

Paul Watson

I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations.

Peter Singer

In the real world, 90% of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10% of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

Pete Hegseth

Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I'm not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome.

We play defense and run the floor. We just like to run the floor and want you to keep up with us. We want our defense to cause turnovers. That's what got us here.

Sam Harris

While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.

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

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.

Fear only the will of God and you will have no cause to fear anyone else.

Donald Rumsfeld

When there is damage done, it is not always exactly clear what caused the damage.

Rigoberta Menchu

When you are convinced your cause is just, you fight for it.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

P. J. O'Rourke

As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.

P. J. O'Rourke

Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

Boz Scaggs

This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.

Andrew Lansley

Tell people that biology and the environment cause obesity and they are offered the one thing we have to avoid: an excuse. As it is, people who see more fat people around them may themselves be more likely to gain weight.

We're not enforcing our laws as strictly as we could. When you have a high percentage that is caused by speeding and reckless driving, that speaks to enforcement.