Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Your principal motive on a movie set is to get the film made, but on a Woody Allen set, there's an ulterior… — Rebecca Hall 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
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
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games,… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment… — Paulo Coelho 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
CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained -… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money. — Asher Brown Durand Copy Share Image
