God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters. — James Madison Copy Share Image
As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us. — George Muller Copy Share Image
...it is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
The only motive that there ever was was to completely control a person; a person I found physically attractive. And keep them… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A little more grace, a motive made pure, a few truths tenderly told, a heart softened, a character subdued, a life consecrated,… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“What is the motive behind your services? If it is self-centered, self-serving, and lacking consideration for others, then earning people’s trust, rapport,… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being proud of America, believing that America can do great things. America can do great things, it has… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
President Obama, I think, wanted what was best for the country, but I think it didn't work well. I think we have… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed… — John Fairclough Copy Share Image
When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Men's hearts are being searched...it is a tremendous sifting time, not only of actions but of inner motives. Nothing can escape the… — Frank Bartleman Copy Share Image
When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
