I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Eisner mentioned he was uncomfortable calling Kirby someone with heavy artistic intent. I paraphrase, but Eisner felt Jack was mostly concerned with… — Glen David Gold 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
Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
