There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political. — Earle Brown Copy Share Image
Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
You gotta question the purpose you serve for those who invite themselves into your life. Learn who you are and always question… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world. — Noah Porter Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery"… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A relationship with Christ changes your heart. It's not about your head. It changes your heart. Jesus comes to live in your… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family,… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
The purpose of formulating [a] conflict as a game is not that of resolving the conflict by 'solving the game.' It is… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The moment one starts sharing one's being without any motive life becomes a sweet fragrance. It is all honey. Then everything remains… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation').… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“To kill required little more than the ability to point and shoot. Almost anyone could do it. To escape required the successful… — Tom Wood Copy Share Image
To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
“what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute… — Leo Tolstoy 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 primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
When your team questions your motives and methods, you have lost their trust and you will not be able to influence them. — John Fairclough Copy Share Image
My main motive for going into children's literature was to recreate the helpless giggling that infected me in my childhood. In some… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image