Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Aristotle

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

She's causes problems because she's 5-10 and can play outside or inside. We've got a lot of set plays for her.

Since I am no one, what can I say? Since I am nothing, what can I be? As He created me, so I act. As He causes me to speak, so I speak. I am full and overflowing with sins - if only I could wash them away!

Obviously, any controversy in the marketplace causes companies to pause and reevaluate.

Ariel Garten

Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stress with relationships, family, financial woes and health concerns, and you find yourself in a constant state of fight or flight. This causes people to be more reactionary, which further perpetuates the cycle of stress.

Venkaiah Naidu

Leaking information to media causes damage not only to the concerned individual but also to the party.

She was a champion of the underdog and took on a number of causes. She was interested in people who didn't have as much as others did.

Damien Woody

When your defense scores two touchdowns and causes four turnovers and you still lose, that's bad. That's real bad. We couldn't do (anything) on offense. That might have been the worse offense I've ever seen ever.

Kofi Annan

Mr. de Soto's contacts with regional leaders, while not as complete as would have been desirable, nevertheless confirmed my concern that the new situation which had emerged following the developments of May, compounding as it does the longstanding causes of friction between India and Pakistan, may have serious implications for peace and security in the region and beyond,

Thomas Woods

Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential ingredient in anyone's economic and historical education.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'

It all hinges on whether the Fed tightening slows the economy and causes a recession.

Emayatzy Corinealdi

I'm a tomboy at the end of the day, so anything that causes me to have to run around, fight people, roll in the dirt, hop a fence - I'm all for it. So I really would love to do an action film.

The causes of obesity are varied and complex, but the lack of daily physical activity is an important factor.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

There's a pervasive problem in trying to sort out whether there is something intrinsic about homeownership that causes these externalities or whether the people that become homeowners are the kind of people that generate these externalities.

It's just, you gotta pay your dues if you want to sing the blues. Not that I've never paid dues in my life, but I just paid a lot in the last couple of years. What can I say? It just gives your songs a whole lot more legitimacy. Or it causes you to write better songs or something, I don't know.

Any time we do have snowfall, it always causes havoc.

John Millington Synge

Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.

It's clear that the governor understands the potential problem that gambling causes teenagers, and the lottery in particular.

It's unfortunate that after more than two decades on Death Rows, and several years since lethal injection was instituted, that these objections would be raised at the last minute. It causes undue stress on the victims' families.

It's not that being underweight causes disease, but that these chronic diseases can cause weight loss, ... It's called reverse causation.

Kyle Orton

For me, I don't think it causes any problems in the locker room,

David Lynch

It's the superhighway to the gold. This causes negativity to go like sunlight causes darkness to go.

Michael Musto

I kinda float through a nightclub, and that causes people to come up and spill their guts to me.

Edsel Ford

Each of these dealers not only gives so much of their time and money to a wide variety of causes, but they encourage others in their communities to do the same. Their efforts are inspiring and we are very proud of them.

Jason Silva

We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

Ali Khamenei

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.

Abel Ferrara

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

Dante Alighieri

If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!