So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!
She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.
Conosco il potere delle parole, l’alchimia fatta di lettere e suoni che può creare rivoluzioni, eroi, cause, nazioni, leggende, mondi impossibili e mondi pericolosi.
The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.
Guilt can teach us to become better; shame causes us to become bitter." EL
Consciousness is not confined within an individual brain. Otherwise, how can it cause changes in the physical state of things outside the brain?
I know! WHY! – Am I so catty? – Cause I’m consumed with envy an’ eaten up with longing? –
The bastard was effectively stuck until he and Morfyd helped him. Fearghus smiled a little at his father’s suffering and the female who caused it. I do love that woman.
Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
Harper, treat your words with care For they may cause joy or despair Sing your songs of health and love Of dragons flaming from above
If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of.
If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.
She is of the race of Jeanne d’Arc, this Northern girl, in her voice, her bearing, her beliefs. That kind if not to be possessed by one man; she belongs to a cause, to the people.
There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.
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The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble.
Outside, he had a sudden feeling that at moments there was too much light for human eyes. It caused men to feel weak and befuddled.
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68
The most tragic cause of social disharmony is when the speed with which people find mistakes of others outweighs their simple belief that they too are infallible!
