The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. — Charles Mengel Allen Copy Share Image
And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The only motive in the world that will keep me from sin is the knowledge that God is mine and I am… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
The relationship of life - life as an excuse to do nothing here but the reason everyone has a motive other than… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously,… — Mark Riebling Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
You know, you can't always criticize without somebody being at the end of the stick. And she perhaps did not always grant… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This going on and on about how terrible a carbon-based economy is, these people are full of crap. They don't know what… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
I am a convinced and consistent critic of party-parliamentarism. I am for non-partisan elections of true people's representatives who are accountable to… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I also try to weigh my motives. Am I doing what I'm doing because it's what God desires, or because I'm afraid… — Tricia Goyer Copy Share Image
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt. — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through… — Zoe Lofgren Copy Share Image
The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
