Quotes
Quotes about Cause
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
When you have compassion and surrender to your own heart, you are surrendering to the hidden power in your heart, God. You are surrendering to love, because God is Love, the cohesive force of the universe that connects us all. Surrender is not just a religious concept; it's a power tool for listening to the voice of your spirit and following its directions. When you surrender your head to your heart, you allow your heart to give you a wider, higher intelligence perspective. Remember the phrase, "The real teacher is within you." Very simply, that teacher is to be found in the common sense of your own heart. -Sara Paddison.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to thier hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -James Baldwin.
As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."
Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. [Lat., Cignoni non sine causa Apoloni dicata sint, quod ab eo divinationem habere videantur, qua providentes quid in morte boni sit, cum cantu et voluptate moriantur.]
You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Televisionâa medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back.
No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because thats where you are.
No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because thats where you are and thats the place from where you can control the past and the future.
Just because your trained for something doesn't mean your prepared for it. -Anonymous.
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
