We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Why would the apostles lie?…Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I'm a person who really likes to understand motives - the inner motives and the inner personalities of persons. Why do people… — Dror Moreh Copy Share Image
Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular… — Sophie Hannah 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
Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I don't think any of my desires or beliefs or other mental states are external to me. Many people will occasionally feel… — Nomy Arpaly 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
sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Copy Share Image
One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Everyone had an ulterior motive in his worldview. Everyone was self-serving and therefore a potential instrument of pain. The world was a… — Jeremy Dyson Copy Share Image
It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
I feel like you can't trust a cat. I feel like a cat's got an ulterior motive. The moment you show any… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives. — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives? — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
