Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Often it's scarier when stuff is weird and when you don't fully understand the motive. Pennywise in 'IT' is very weird. — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people — LeCrae Copy Share Image
You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Be creative in that sense and your creativity will become an offering to God. God has given you so many gifts, Garima;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
If you seek His help, be sure your life is clean, your motives are worthy, and you're willing to do what He… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn't their arguments be easy to… — Ann Coulter 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
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
In this state of total consumerism-which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment. — Mahavatar Babaji Copy Share Image
Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty , but it also implies that your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
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