Quotes
Quotes about Cause
A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.
This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.
George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . . Should the General raise his left hand as he has raised his right, it would point to a quarter of the city that forms a haven for the oppressed and suppressed of foreign lands. In the cause of national or personal freedom they have found refuge here, and the patriot who made it for them sits his steed, overlooking their district, while he listens through his left ear to vaudeville that caricatures the posterity of the proteges.
I love night more than day--she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie.
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobilityâif there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.
He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen. [Lat., Eo magis praefulgebat quod non videbatur.]
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how our failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good causeâand of obstinacy in a bad one.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. â¢Anonymous Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
If the wind is against you then start sailing against it because the wind may never change in your favor.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations . . . . The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert, From doing town or country hurt.
When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
