Quotes
Quotes about Cause
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.
Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, and the plane of the solid, think there must be real things of this sort.
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
He made little, too little of sacraments and priests, because God was so intensely real to him. What should he do with lenses who stood thus full in the torrent of the sunshine.
Two men please God--who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
Goths tend to be rather pacifistic, so to associate all Goths with violence because some of them are into heavy metal music is illogical. It makes just as much sense to reason like this: some nuns like soccer; violence sometimes occurs at soccer matches; therefore, nuns tend to be violent.
So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are "our children"; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.
Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.
That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us.".
Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate, Who dies as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great.
'Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.' And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast, Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.
