Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Traders were really preparing for the worst. I think the reading is very much a cause for relief.

This study is the first to provide evidence that early life exposures may result in effects manifesting themselves in adults. There's no other toxic exposure occurring to young children or mothers that causes such marked increase in mortality in young adults.

This strategy of integrated innovation has just caused the whole company to go into gridlock,

Marquis de Lafayette

The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice.

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.

Gene Tierney

Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

Gary Zukav

Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.

Stuart Scott

In the South we experienced, you know, some black kids who gave us a hard time because - cause 'you talk white.' We didn't talk white. We talked fairly proper. Plus, we had a Midwestern accent, so we didn't have a Southern accent, either. So it wasn't really talking white; it was talking different.

I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

William Adams

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

Warren Moon

I've always tried to lend my support to worth while causes, and I feel you should use your celebrity to help with worldwide causes and help them gain exposure.

Avicenna

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

Ashton Shepherd

Maybe you could call me a little controlling or I like things to be my way, but since I was a little girl, I've known what I wanted. I'm very rootsy, but it really hadn't ever caused me too much strife. I really know when to say when. I'm not too outward but I'm very honest.

We don't know what really spurred the argument. We don't know what triggered that, and what caused it to get so violent.

We don't know what kind of transport system will develop, but oil supply and pollution issues might cause the Chinese government to mandate fuel cells. That type of top-down government could create an immediate market. In the U.S. this would be more of a trickle.

We don't know the exact cause or reason, but it's certainly clear when you look at the worst-ever catastrophic event, which it looks like Katrina will be, we're in a different world, and it's a much more risky world for catastrophic events.

We don't know the exact cause of this. But it is probably because lungs of women are generally smaller (than men's),

We don't know the cause of the accident. It's under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.

We don?t know that any charges will be filed, but we have to eliminate other causes as well to remove any reasonable doubt should any charges be filed. We have to eliminate other causes, including a train going through and sparking the fire.

We don't know if that's going to cause some people to change their minds. Historically when gas prices have gone up, people have not changed their minds.

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.

We didn't cause the problem. We're not going to compensate (the airline) for fixing it.

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.

Hasso Plattner

The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.

We are taking it very seriously. He said he has explosives and intends to cause harm to himself.

Yukiya Amano

Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

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.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war.

Dan Quisenberry

I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

The rate of increase in Durham County has not been so strong as to cause any concern on my part about oversupply.