False Cause Quotes

#1. How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

Michel De Montaigne

#2. Your future together? To get there, it means refusing all the other crap the universe hands you. It means telling the Wheel of Fate to suck it and roll over someone else. It means not settling for any of the other endings you see coming. It means holding out.

Kami Garcia

#3. There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Albert Camus

#4. A poet's purified truth can cause no pain, no offense. True art is above false honor.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

Sid Grossman

#6. How easy is it for the proper false In women's waxen hearts to set their forms! Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we, (30) For such as we are made of, such we be.

William Shakespeare

#7. There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion - in the bloody religions of the heathen.

Thaddeus Stevens

#8. In life, you don't get anywhere or do anything you hope to without some sort of sacrifice.

Stephen Saad

#9. Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

Saint Augustine

#10. The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Matthew Arnold

#11. You don't get to pick what you feel, you only get to start feeling it.

Anonymous

#12. I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.

Peter Gabriel

#13. There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

Douglas Adams

#14. I've been told that the color blue can actually cause the body to produce calming chemicals, helping one to relax.
I wonder if that's true. I wonder if it's false. I wonder what it says about me that I feel nothing.

Caroline Nolan

#15. I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred.

Lauren DeStefano

#16. He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Henry Ward Beecher

#17. It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

Martin Luther

#18. The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.

James Clerk Maxwell

#19. Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

John Ruskin

#20. From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.

Robert Harris

#21. Of all things let us avoid the false refuge of a weary collapse, a hopeless yielding to things as they are. It is the life in us that is discontented: we need more of what is discontented, not more of the cause of its discontent.

George MacDonald

#22. These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause.

Cory Booker

#23. I can't say that I've ever tried to hurt someone or humiliate them intentionally. My parents raised me to always be the bigger person or to treat others the way you want to be treated.

Nicole Anderson

#24. There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Anthony De Mello

#25. In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

Mark Skousen

#26. Success makes success, like money makes money.

Nicolas Chamfort

#27. Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

Oswald Chambers

#28. It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.

Jack Cade

#29. On the whole, the politics of moviemaking is something that actors are kind of blissfully ignorant of.

Kate Winslet

#30. You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games.

Don Shula