Causes Quotes

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.
Jonathan Sacks

Science, Why, Cannot

Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.
Evan Davis

Live, Brain, Times

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.
Cameron Diaz

Important, Changes, Active

The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
Daisaku Ikeda

Through, Idea, Conditions

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
Charles Horton Cooley

Freedom, Same, General

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
William O. Douglas

Life, Loyalty, Political

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.
Jeffrey Kluger

Science, Die, Willing

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
Melinda Gates

Child, Leading, Diarrhea

I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen.
Caroline Kennedy

Work, Country, Elections

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
Peter McWilliams

Success, Happiness, Happy

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
John Tillotson

Great, Ignorance, Two

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
Meir Kahane

Forget, National, Suffer

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Jorge Luis Borges

Others, Act, Order

I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
Karl Rove

Past, Wish, Used

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
Jesse Ventura

Good, Government, Possibly

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.
Tom DeLay

Parents, Control, Working

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
Rowan Atkinson

Good, Cars, Toy

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.
Jane Pauley

Love, Home, Today

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
Laura Hillenbrand

Life, Suffering, Difficult

I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now that I have my own.
Jennifer Garner

Children, Find, Listen

Evil events from evil causes spring.
Aristophanes

Evil, Spring, Events

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Manly Hall

Good, Bad, Words

Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.
Mark Hyman

Someone, May, Battle

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Avoid, Extremes, Cooperate

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
Edward Bach

Science, Failure, Medical

I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.
Sharon Stone

Children, Made, Getting

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Eugene Ionesco

Beauty, Death, Away

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.
Austin Peck

Honesty, Honest, Comedy

I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some.
Ayelet Waldman

Work, Women, Husband

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Big, Again, Ideas

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