Pastoral Resources

Well, I think I've made 44 films and only like four times I've played real characters I'm just drawn to people who have a pioneer spirit, this extraordinary energy and commitment to their cause.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

To set the cause above renown.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Let's cause some senators distress.

Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.

I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.