Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read)… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of… — Donald Faison 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
Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It… — Anonymous 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
Love is the grand motive of the plan of salvation; it is the source of happiness, the ever-renewing spring of healing, the… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
“The motives of mankind are plainer than the motions they produce.” — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the… — Anonymous 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
