I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful but not in a cute festive way. More in a life-threatening way that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.

Politically the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past present and future wars.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Australia is the only island continent on the planet which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas which can drive stronger storms and more acidic oceans which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.

I am suspending my presidential campaign because of the continued distractions the continued hurt caused on me and my family not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all the creators of wealth to produce less through strikes it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

My failure during the first five or six years of my art training to get set in the right direction and the disappointment which it caused me drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.