Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for… — Bram Fischer Copy Share Image
I feel like, especially in Hollywood, you meet people with ulterior motives, who are trying to get something from you. — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are. — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
“Though the motives which governed me may to you very naturally appear insufficient, I have not yet learned to condemn them.” — Jane Austen 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
Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The people around you are generally mysterious. You are never quite sure about their intentions. They present an appearance that is often… — Robert Greene 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
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points of view: the material, the… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
Because I don't understand what would be someone's motives to want to go into space, where you're possibly going to die, and… — Eoin Macken 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
Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight… — Nathaniel Rich 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
“When you come to examine into the actuating motives for any line of human endeavor you will find that vanity figures about… — Samuel G. Blythe Copy Share Image
“Most known motives are so suspect these days that I doubt whether the hidden ones are any better. All the same,” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Resolutely ignoring Banu's dark mutterings, steeling herself against the barrage of harsh words that questioned her motives, her upbringing, and her morality” — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
We can not too much or too often warn against the lax or even base manner of thought which seeks its principles… — Kant Copy Share Image
You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
“I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it. — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are? — Confucius Copy Share Image
I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy,… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Some are motivated by a desire to mould the law to expand the rights of the downtrodden, while other may be motivated… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self… — Ron Conway Copy Share Image
Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving… — James Cook Copy Share Image
