Top 1200 Good Causes Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

Motives are causes experienced from within.

We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the “thick of thin things.” In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.

It is your restlessness that causes chaos.

You know me, I love lost causes.

First causes are outside the realm of science.

It all boils down to the music. That's what causes longevity.

The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects.

God hides Himself behind causes.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

One of the causes of the Arab Spring was high unemployment.

I am not one to seek simple causes.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

Know that the difficulties which lead to confusion in the question what is the purpose of the Universe or of any of its parts, arise from two causes: first, man has an erroneous idea of himself, and believes that the whole world exists only for his sake; secondly, he is ignorant both about the nature of the sublunary world, and about the Creator's intention to give existence to all beings whose existence is possible, because existence is undoubtedly good.

Psychiatry causes so much death

So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.

Polygamy causes a lot of strife

...I dabble in causes and effects.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

God is no respecter of persons or causes.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear. We rely more on our own efforts than on those of his Providence, and we think we are doing a great deal by anticipating His orders by our own disorder, which causes us to rely on human prudence rather than on his Word.

If you want change, create the causes.

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

Beliefs are the determinants of what one experiences. There are no external 'causes.'

The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness.

Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.

Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire.

He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.

I'm thrilled that Wonder Woman and that character endures because every actor wants a role that has some positive affect and causes people to smile or have good memories and to endure. It doesn't just go away, fade away. It's been 25 years that it's been off the air and so it still surprises me when younger people recognize me or know my work.

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of the culture, such as religion.

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.

Monetary policy causes booms and busts.

The root causes of terrorism is terrorists.

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems

Pride definitely causes a lack of communication.

This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.

It is ignorance that causes most mistakes.

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

Whatever is, is in its causes just.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

Fear in the mind causes stress in the body.

Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.