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Cause Quotes (page 11)

Francis Bacon quote: "The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the..."
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. Francis Bacon
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. Avicenna
Avicenna quote: "The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is..."
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. Avicenna
We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account. Jeffrey Archer
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God. Thomas Aquinas
It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading. Walter Annenberg
It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out. Jeff Ament
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry. Virginia Woolf
Paula Poundstone quote: "Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when..."
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas. Paula Poundstone
Victor Hugo quote: "Now, don't kick a dog 'cause it's only a pup!"
Now, don't kick a dog 'cause it's only a pup! Victor Hugo
And maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much. But maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you tore it all up. Running scared, I was there, I remember it all too well. And you call me up again just to break me like a promise. So casually cruel in the name of being honest. I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here'Cause I remember it all, all, all too well Taylor Swift
Nothingman" is about a troubled relationship. I wrote it before I was married. I might bring something I know from the relationship to "Nothingman," but I'm thinking about someone else going through it, someone who fucked up. I didn't fuck up. The idea is about if you love someone and they love you, don't fuck up... 'cause you are left with less than nothing. Eddie Vedder
I have a burden on my soul. During my long life, I did not make anyone happy, neither my friends, nor my family, nor even myself. I have done many evil things...I was the cause of the beginning of three big wars. About 800,000 people were killed because of me on the battlefields., and their mothers, brothers, and widows cried for them. And now this stands between me and God. Otto von Bismarck
It is an observation suggested by all history, and by none more than by that of James I and his successor [Charles I], that the religious spirit, when it mingles with faction, contains in it something supernatural and unaccountable; and that, in its operations upon society, effects correspond less to their known causes than is found in any other circumstance of government. David Hume
You Bastard was thinking: there seems to be some growing dimensional instability here, swinging from zero to nearly forty-five degrees by the look of it. How interesting. I wonder what’s causing it? Let V equal 3. Let Tau equal Chi/4. cudcudcud Let Kappa/y be an Evil-Smelling-Bugger* (* Renowned as the greatest camel mathematician of all time, who invented a math of eight-dimensional space while lying down with his nostrils closed in a violent sandstorm.) differential tensor domain with four... Terry Prachett

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