Causing Quotes

#1. The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

George Carlin

#2. His words coursed through him like jolts of electricity, some striking on target precisely because they were so unpredictable, causing him to shudder, and concede, and agree that literature was more than just jotting down stories, it was physical energy.

Victor Martinovich

#3. It said something about my life when a heavily armed official accused me of causing magical havoc and i had to wonder which incident she meant.

Kalayna Price

#4. Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.

Philip Jose Farmer

#5. Women and girls are bearing the brunt of extremists that revel in treating them barbarically. This is inextricably linked to our overall failure to prevent and end conflicts worldwide, which is causing human suffering on an unprecedented level.

Angelina Jolie

#6. Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.

Karen Finerman

#7. He wondered how the little crud monkeys were doing in New York. He hoped they were still having fun harassing Romans, stealing lots of shiny zippers and causing legionnaires' pants to fall down.

Rick Riordan

#8. the hot sickness causing him to see people

Theresa Scott

#9. I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

Eli Whitney

#10. Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.

Mallory Ortberg

#11. The neurosurgeon removed the right half of my skull. The swelling from the injury was so severe, it was causing enormous pressure on my brain, which if left uncontrolled would have killed me.

Amy Rankin

#12. After a moment, he found my neck, kissing the nape, his teeth grazing my skin and causing
me to make a small noise very much like a whimper. Before I could take another breath, his
lips met mine and I was lost to his touch.

Cyrese Covelli

#13. But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

George Eliot

#14. But, chiquita, you must understand that while you are here, I expect you to come to me and share your fears. Even if I am the one causing them.

Cherise Sinclair

#15. According to the belief, molecules closer together than 200 nanometers could not be told apart with focused light. This is because, in a packed molecular crowd, the molecules shout out their fluorescence simultaneously, causing their signal, their voices, to be confused.

Stefan Hell

#16. The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.

Robert Shapiro

#17. His scent burst onto her brain like a rain of lights, causing her to know him perfectly. This is how moths speak to each other. The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

Barbara Kingsolver

#18. Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.

Ryan Lilly

#19. So, what would you like to drink?"
"Aside from you?"
I laughed anxiously. "You can't drink me."
He leaned forward, his eyes running up and down my body, causing my skin to heat. "Yes, I believe I can. And I believe I will. But for now, I'll just have a Bombay and tonic.

Karina Halle

#20. I believe in teaching manners without causing fisticuffs.

Letitia Baldrige

#21. You know what's more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn't causing any harm.

Gary Yourofsky

#22. This signifies that the presence of God is so smeared or rubbed on you like oil, that His presence is left on you, causing divine excellence and power.

Chris Oyakhilome

#23. The forest is peaceful, why aren't you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird's song then let go. If you know nature, you'll know truth. If you know truth, you'll know nature.

Ajahn Chah

#24. In the EU, we agree that the pressures causing migration must be reduced.

Wolfgang Schauble

#25. Keep working on you. Remind yourself that it's your emotions and experiences and expectations that are causing your outbursts, not your little one's behavior.

L.R. Knost

#26. self-stigma is not a person's fault; nor is it a part of the person's illness!
If the public did not hold negative and stigmatizing attitudes in the first place, these would never have become internalized, causing people the painful and disabling experience of self-stigma.

Patrick W. Corrigan

#27. Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Rosa Parks

#28. Which the experimental participant leaned her head on a chin-and-forehead rest and stared at a camera while listening to prerecorded information and answering questions on the recorded beats of a metronome. The beats triggered an infrared flash every second, causing a

Daniel Kahneman

#29. Our musical artistry and leadership of people need to work together to create an environment that welcomes participation instead of causing disengagement.

Gangai Victor

#30. People who do affirmations will have the sensation that
they are causing the environment to conform to their will.
This is an immensely enjoyable feeling because the illusion
of control is one of the best illusions you can have.

Scott Adams

#31. Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry when they're not alone, and causing pain is how they grieve.

Gregory David Roberts

#32. Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

Sylvia Earle

#33. And this might also sound trivial, but I don't think you'd make attractive children."
"Daddy!" I yelled, causing a bit of a stir. I buried my head in my hand as Dad doubled over in laughter.
"I'm just saying!

Kiera Cass

#34. Those who thought they best knew her, often wondered what happiness such a being could take in life, not considering the happiness which is to be had by some natures in the very easy way of simply causing pain to those around them.

Herman Melville

#35. Busta Rhymes the mighty infamous,
Always misbehaving and mischeivous,
Causing aggravation, I'll never pause,
Pushing out spit balls through plastic straws.

Busta Rhymes

#36. Ares's power was causing my anger. He'd love it if I attacked. I didn't want to give him the satisfaction.

Rick Riordan

#37. There's only one remedy for crime - get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!

L. Ron Hubbard

#38. I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

Michael Palin

#39. There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.

Timothy Geithner

#40. All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

Baruch Spinoza

#41. Note to self: I take entirely too much pleasure in causing bodily harm to others.

Adrianne Brooks

#42. He kisses her, and she knows, somehow, that he is asking for help, for an end to the sadness they are causing one another. Asking because, after all these years together, it is the only thing that might save them.

Madeleine Thien

#43. Bullshit!" Thor shouted at the stage, causing the actor playing Estelle to look at the audience. Thor added, "Just leave. Be done with this nightmare of a play! Goddamn cowards!

Dylan Callens

#44. There are chemical and other explanations for addictions, but speaking from my own observations (and I am a shamanic type), there is always some sort of disembodied spirit causing some of the addiction, riding your energy field, trying to impose their needs and addictions onto you.

Robert Moss

#45. It has been a period where people have been far nicer to one another in every possible way. I'm not saying it's because we're dropping our empathy that we're nicer to each other, just that the drop doesn't seem to be causing any harm.

Paul Bloom

#46. A warm sensation fluttered over my body, causing me to shiver in delight. I blushed, even though no one else was in the room.

Inger Iversen

#47. Buddhism: a violent religion that has compensated for the exploding human population by causing whole species of animal vessels to go extinct.

Bauvard

#48. The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

Norm Dicks

#49. A Canadian woman was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Thursday for causing two deaths in 2010 when she stopped her car on a Quebec highway to help a group of ducklings crossing the road.

Anonymous

#50. What she had liked better still was his drowsy demeanour and slow manner of speech; he
had seemed inoffensive, the kind of man who would go about his work without causing trouble, not the least desirable of qualities in a husband.

Amitav Ghosh

#51. You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city.

Peter Diamandis

#52. Anger - and a small measure of shame about what she'd heard - speared down my spine, causing me to sit up straight. "You rudely eavesdropped on my appointment at the bank, googled me, and now you think you understand my situation?" What the fuck?

Mia Sheridan

#53. Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

Donald Worster

#54. - It is far more complicated to have the sex one sees being carried out nowadays, a mere mechanical act, causing tension during the act, and emptiness afterwards.

Paulo Coelho

#55. In addition to single-gene genetic disorders, there are just five causes of all disease: poor diet, chronic stress, microbes, toxins, and allergens, all of which wash over our DNA causing changes in our gene expression, and turning off or on different genes and messages that affect our metabolism.

Mark Hyman

#56. There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.

Marianne Williamson

#57. And then he understands: it's a loop, an endless loop of injured children, growing old but keeping their pain fresh and new, causing yet more injury and starting the whole cycle over again.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#58. When you feel yourself in the grip of an emotion such as jealousy or anger or sorrow, detach yourself from it. Take a step back. When you do that, you can allow the emotion to run through you without causing negative thoughts or actions.

Gary Zukav

#59. In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

John Conyers

#60. She could feel the heat from his body behind her. It radiated from his chest to her shoulder blades. The silk of his bow tie brushed against her hair, penetrating it, until it grazed across the surface of her neck, causing it to explode into goose-pimples.

Sylvain Reynard

#61. Vimes' glare ran from face to face, causing most of the squad to do an immediate impression of the Floorboard and Ceiling Inspectors Synchronised Observation Team.

Terry Pratchett

#62. (Humans, take note: You can refer to the Realm as "Faerie" without causing offense, but do not make the mistake of referring to its citizens as "fairies" - unless you want to be punched.) Elfhaeme

Ellen Kushner

#63. When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it's easy to stay silent.

Robert Walser

#64. [I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment.

Vincent De Paul

#65. Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#66. But love isn't about causing pain for the person you care about,

Maya Banks

#67. We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

Mehmet Oz

#68. We are causing war and destruction among ourselves for all the wrong reasons.

Shannon A. Thompson

#69. It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.

Gerald Jampolsky

#70. We are the creators and creatures of each other,
causing and bearing each other's burden.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#71. The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.

Marianne Williamson

#72. Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers.

Eric Schneiderman

#73. Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

Dion Fortune

#74. Look beyond a person's actions and see their heart. Look for what's causing them to act the way they act, then you'll understand them better.

Ginny L. Yttrup

#75. Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

Muriel Barbery

#76. God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#77. The absence of any kind of communication from her was not at all like an absence. It was instead a presence: of mind-pain, like a thick, rusted arrow shooting straight into my head, poisoning my mind with something like tetanus, causing my thoughts to go haywire, a spasm here, a spasm there.

Chinelo Okparanta

#78. But the apples must have set off enough mines, causing debris to activate the others.

Suzanne Collins

#79. We're the ones causing global warming. In fact, what we ought to be saying is population growth is a major cause of it, so I hope to have a T-shirt out very, very soon: Stop global warming, use condoms.

Mechai Viravaidya

#80. The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

Jason Calacanis

#81. When a pathogen leaps from some nonhuman animal into a person, and succeeds there in establishing itself as an infectious presence, sometimes causing illness or death, the result is a zoonosis.

David Quammen

#82. My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it.

John Holdren

#83. Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.

Tom Chatfield

#84. Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

Bill Nye

#85. Ever to be emphasized, however, is the reality that God's "seeing" is not the same thing as His "causing" something to happen.7

Daniel K Judd

#86. We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

Henry Rollins

#87. Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

Charles Stross

#88. There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.

Max Heindel

#89. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else.

Joseph Campbell

#90. Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the damage they're causing, and they will not stop until they've run the world economy off a cliff.

Philipp Meyer

#91. Planned parenthood in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on the political plane, have been causing the trend towards economic planning.

Gunnar Myrdal

#92. Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.

Frederick Lenz

#93. Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.

J.K. Rowling

#94. My heart swelled, causing my chest to ache and breathing to become nearly impossiple. Paralyzed by her beaty, i hovered over her. She was no nymph, but a goddess.

Katie McGarry

#95. Ouch!" Amy yelped, causing Hamilton to release her. "Sorry," she said, smiling as she rubbed her shoulder. "I'm just a little sore."
Madison nodded gravely. "Smart peole books are pretty heavy.

Clifford Riley

#96. Living in an inner state of vulnerability is a powerful practice that opens our hearts, causing us to live in a state of gratitude for our life and life itself.

Michael Beckwith

#97. He said Manhattan had other problems - whatever that meant. And sometimes when I looked across the water, I could swear I was seeing things. Sadie laughed about it, but once I thought I saw a flying horse. Probably just the mansion's magic barriers causing optical illusions, but still, it was weird.

Rick Riordan

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

Scott Westerfeld

#99. Suddenly, a high-pitched sound blasted into the room. The floor began shaking beneath her feet. She paused for a moment, wondering if she was causing this.

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#100. You had to stop discussing politics or you would run right into it, causing no damage to anything but yourself.

Terry Pratchett