Quotes with cause

Quotes 121 till 140 of 243.

  • Friedrich von Schiller No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Alfred Adler No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • John Mason Brown No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • W. H. Auden Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Jonathan Swift O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Samuel Johnson One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carrie Fisher One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Edward Dahlberg One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Harold Rosenberg Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause, it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • C. S. Lewis Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
    The Screwtape Letters (1942)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Aesop Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Thomas E. Dewey Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause.
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  • Al Goldstein Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • James Baldwin Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
    Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Rush Limbaugh Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
    Rush Limbaugh
    American radio talk show host (1951 - 2021)
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