“You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.” KnowsWayMeanTurnsThreeLostCausesChristianityPrayingSaintSuperstitionsThree TimesPatronLost Cause Author:Ciaran Hinds
“Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes.” PeopleMeanUseEyeCausesSupportTerrorismTerroristInnocent Author:Milos Zeman
“Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass, those who have tempted the courts to political judging will have gained nothing for themselves but will have destroyed a great and essential institution. . . . There are only two sides. Either the Constitution and statutes are law, which means their principles are known and control judges, or they are malleable texts that judges may rewrite to see that particular groups or political causes win.” ShouldMayMeanTwoLawPoliticalGamesWinningCausesSidesViewsKnownPrinciplesGroupsParticularJudgingEssentialsConstitutionInstitutionsCourtConservativeDestroyedActivistTemptedTwo SidesStatutes Author:Robert Bork
“Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.” IfsKnowsMenMeanLongRunningPoliticalLyingCausesSoundTroubleCapitalismCapacitySalvationThreatFinancialCommunismLong RunsConvenienceInactionOrderlyDisturbance Book:The great crash, 1929 Source: The great crash, 1929
“Don't make your wedding a pleasant memory in this life but a source of misery in the next. Make it an eternally good memory. In trying to have a halal wedding, you might sacrifice many relationships but the opposite might mean sacrificing the only relationship that will matter in the hereafter for a bunch of people who don't even really care about you. Don't make one night the cause of your regret for an eternity.” PeopleTryingMeanMatterMightCareNightNextCausesMemoriesSacrificeRegretSourceOppositesEternityMiseryBunchThis LifePleasantOne NightHereafterGood MemoriesOur WeddingHalalPleasant Memories Author:Omar Suleiman
“Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper.” MeanReadingFoundCausesSawsWorstWillingLateArmyNewspapersCommandToo LateYieldEditorsEditingDefectsEdits Author:Robert E. Lee
“Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.” MenMeanIdeasWarMightYoungFatherCausesDyingAuthorityKillingTraditionalYoung ManRejectsVietnamUnjustManhood1960sVietnam WarQuestionable Author:Jackson Katz
“Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.” IfsMayMeanChoicesCausesOffers Author:Sheena Iyengar
“The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.” ThinkingNeedsMeanFeelingsPurposeValuesCultureCausesGreaterContentmentTrue Happiness Author:Tom Shadyac
“I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.” PeopleWorldWantLooksMeanSoulHelpingWould BeLastsSpiritualHateCausesStuffMy OwnPracticeMeditationEgoAchievementI HateBoringHelping OthersTransitionContemplatingLast DaySpiritual PracticeHelping Other PeopleNavel Author:Isabel Allende
“What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of therules and no involvement in decision-making. . . . Involving the adolescent in decisions doesn't mean that you are giving up your authority. It means acknowledging that the teenager is growing up and has the right to participate in decisions that affect his or her life.” GivingMeanLittlesUseCausesDecisionGrowing UpGrowingGiving UpAuthorityTeenagerExplanationDecision MakingRebelArbitraryInvolvementAssertionInvolvingUse Of Power Author:Laurence Steinberg
“The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.” PeopleWayMeanWould BePoliticsCausesCommonCourtTricksAshamedFinesse Book:The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson
“Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which, when the lime and straw are mixed with such sand, will cause it to crack as it dries on account of the great strength of the mixture. But river sand, though useless in "signinum" on account of its thinness, becomes perfectly solid in stucco when thoroughly worked by means of polishing instruments.” MeanCausesRiversAccountsInstrumentsStructureExcellenceUselessSpiteSandCracksConcreteMixturesRichnessStrawsLimesThinness Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I'm being effective, because I'm not trying to make them comfortable. The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingMeanHelpingJobsSocialCausesBlackCommunityJusticeWhiteOpinionKingsComfortableHarmonyActivistLoadOppressedDrsSocial ChangeDiscomfortTenseBlack CommunityRacial Justice Author:Al Sharpton