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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded…

— Betsy Lerner

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and…

— John Barth

The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of…

— Edward Gibbon

You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive…

— Paul Begala

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

— William Hazlitt

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor in the…

— Carlos P. Romulo

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our…

— David Livingstone

In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs…

— Claude Bernard

Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me a long…

— Damon Runyon

If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go in your…

— Charles Spurgeon

we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives,…

— Joan Robinson

In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of…

— Nikolay Chernyshevsky