One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.
Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.
So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.
What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being.
Do something that surprises yourself cause if you don't surprise yourself, you're not going to surprise anybody else.
An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an immense, an uninterrupted succession of causes and effects.
. . . You're omniscient, right?" "For the most part, yes. " "Then you have to tell me this ‘cause I have to know. What's at the end of everything?" He shrugged. "That's easy enough. " "Then tell me. " "The letter G.
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
A life without a cause is a life without effect.
Evil events from evil causes spring.
A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.
It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
Everything has a cause and the cause of anything is everything.