Quotes of: Noble-cause Keyword

Ralphie: [in his fantasy, Ralphie explains the cause of his blindness] It... It 'twas... soap poisoning!

A Christmas Story

Frank Costello: Now whenever you make a call ask for Mikey, MIKEY!... huh... you ask for a Mikey 'cause there is no Mikey.

The Departed

Nicholas Angel: Why are you wearing a police officer's uniform? Danny Butterman: 'Cause I am one?

Hot Fuzz

[to Ray Collins] Ed Exley: They called you 'Sugar', 'cause you liked to give it out... so sweet.

L.A. Confidential

Malcolm Tucker: You sure you're working as hard as I am, 'cause I'm sweating spinal fluid here!

In the Loop

Max Rockatansky: Once, I was a cop. A road warrior, searching for a righteous cause.

Mad Max: Fury Road

Herb Brooks: [as the players who were cut depart] Take a good look, gentlemen, cause they're the ones getting off easy.

Miracle

Minnie Castevet: [through the wall] ... and please don't tell me what Laura-Louise said, 'cause I'm *not* interested!

Rosemary's Baby

Jim Stark: You can wake up now, the universe has ended.

Rebel Without a Cause

[Looking up at stars in a planetarium] Jim Stark: Once you been up there you know you've been someplace.

Rebel Without a Cause

Jim Stark: You know something? You read too many comic books.

Rebel Without a Cause

Jim Stark: [walks down the stairs and into the empty pool] Oh, a sunken nursery!

Rebel Without a Cause

Stella: Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

Rear Window

Sarah Connor: You're the one livin' in a fuckin' dream, Silberman! 'Cause I know when it happens! It happens!

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

[a door is sealed shut, causing Richter to lose Quaid] Richter: Open the goddamn door! Everett: I can't. Richter: Open it! Everett: They're all connected.

Total Recall

Curtis: [ranting angrily at a roomful of neighbors] Sleep well in your beds. 'Cause if this thing comes true, there ain't gonna be any more.

Take Shelter

If you have a sense that your money is somehow, even indirectly, contributing to a cause that you find morally problematic, then it seems somewhere between reasonable and obligatory for you to vote with your dollars.

Blake Mycoskie

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Charles Mackay

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.

Peter Diamandis

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

Thich Nhat Hanh

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

Fredrik Bajer