Quotes of: Cause Keyword

I think I have a strange thing growing out of my neck that causes me to think too much.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.

Take Me There

(A murderer about their victim:) "He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing.

Unnatural Causes

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

Uglies

We can say that wisdom causes us to know, while understanding enables us to act.

Understanding: All Success Is Attained by It

I've always loved fixing broken things. If something fixed by myself caused a smile, I'd feel saved. In that case it would be worth it. And I was delighted.

Unknown

They stared into the distance as though they were being absorbed into an alternate space-time reality. Perhaps they were. But probably they already had been.

The Virgin of Hopeless Causes

Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar.

The Valley of Unknowing

Looking at either of them caused a pang in his chest. Looking at both of them started a dull, steady ache.

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

A Writer's Diary

Love is the only wound that feels good and is both self-inflicted and caused by others. I should sell emotional Band-Aids.

Xazaqazax

Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it ‘cause I reckoned it was one or the other.

For You

regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.

Adam Rickitt

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Ben Harper

Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.

Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

Herman Melville

Ye cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibres connect you with your fellow-men, and along those fibres, as along sympathetic threads, run your actions as causes, and return to you as effects.

Henry Melvill

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.

Nisargadatta Maharaj