Causa Sui Quotes

#1. A creative force that either creates itself or arises from nothing, and which is a causa sui (its own cause), exactly resembles Baron Munchhausen, who drew himself out of the bog by taking hold of his own hair.

Ludwig Buchner

#2. Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#3. If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.

Carolyn Chute

#4. The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

Henry Ward Beecher

#5. Take down your baby bump photos from Facebook, take down pictures of your kids too. It is your job to protect your children and not parade them around like little circus freaks or glorified mini-you's.

Brandon Kelly

#6. Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for you, which is why I look at around 15- 20 of these sites every day.

Ben Schott

#8. I liked being in the Marines. They gave me discipline I could live with. By the time I got out, I was able to cope with things on a more realistic level.

Steve McQueen

#9. By that which is self-caused, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent.

Baruch Spinoza

#10. I believe that the astonishingly consistent and nuanced reality of the planetary correlations with the archetypal dynamics of human life is one of the most compelling intimations we have that we live in a meaning-laden and purposeful universe.

Richard Tarnas

#11. I wouldn't give my troubles to a monkey on a rock.

David Letterman

#12. He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.

John Eldredge

#13. We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

J. Michael Straczynski

#14. And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge of nameless stuff, and strolled out the door.

Ray Bradbury

#15. We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!]

Ashley Giles

#16. I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.

Daniel Woodrell