“Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.” LongEndsEyeCausesBreakEffectsHolinessBreaking DownWhiteness Author:Charles Simeon
“Want to know the key to a long-lasting relationship? Don't go with your loved one to Ikea. One psychologist says the stress of a visit to the popular furniture store can cause serious friction between couples, whether it's disputes over what to buy or spats while you assemble the items that you bought there.” KnowsWantLongCausesSeriousKeysCoupleStressStoresLastingLoved OnesFurnitureItemsDisputesPsychologistFrictionLong LastingSpatsIkeaLasting RelationshipLong Lasting Relationship Author:Juan Williams
“I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?” IfsWantWritingWellsLongDoneMightWantedCausesDecidedSells Author:Janet Fitch
“For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.” LongHas BeensLawCausesMy OwnEvolutionEternalConstitutionAssociationLatentUnchangeablePredestined Author:Quintus Curtius Rufus
“A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.” FirstsLongStillsMomentsCausesParentBornGriefFireSonFoolishSuperiorsLatterLong LifeBlazing Author:Chanakya
“There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility.” MenLongWarDoneStrongNationsCausesWeakInjusticeLastingImpossibility Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.” LongWarCertainCausesBornProduceBattleUniqueHatredUltimateForgottenAncientConvictionLegacyLong AgoFrontiersFanaticismUltimate Truth Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.” ThinkingLongStrongCausesTermResultsEffectsCenturyAspectCrisisTrainSignificant21st CenturyCause And EffectLag Author:Jamais Cascio
“Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.” GivingMayLongCausesClearEffectsNeededMake SenseImpossibilityEloquentBrevityRenderingPausingWorkmanshipCompression Author:Laura Riding
“There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means.” IfsMeanLongEndsStatesUseCausesCommunityUnitedUnited StatesViolenceDiseaseNotionInternationalTerrorismPeacefulCanadaJustifyInternational CommunityEnds Justify The Means Author:Richard M. Nixon
“If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my side There's a roof above and good walls all around You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome I need you in my house 'cause you're my home.” IfsNeedsLongHomeHouseCausesSidesPleasureWallSettlingInstantRoofTraveledCastlesNeed YouSettling DownI Need YouCabinsDomes Author:Billy Joel