Quotes
Quotes about Cause
We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.]
Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.
When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I cause the widow's heart to sing for joy.
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty. -Woodrow Wilson:.
It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises. [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi: sed omnes illacrimabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.]
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the cultureâin literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
