The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude.… — James Madison 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
I don't see much of a future for this planet. I think it's a cursed planet. The boundaries we've drawn between nations… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast… — Ryan Kwanten Copy Share Image
Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“In the end, Vasile knew he couldn’t take any other path. He knew he needed a purpose to his life, one that… — Mitchell Hogan Copy Share Image
If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“If your only motive is to be loved, to ingratiate yourself with the crowd, you're bound to fall into bad habits, and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
There is no hope for the world unless and until we formulate, accept and state publicly a true moral code of individualism,… — Ayn Rand 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
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you… — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
If you are doing a peer review of somebody's paper before publication, the editor would not allow you to speculate about the… — Susan Fiske Copy Share Image
Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
In a nutshell, the idea of Juche means that the masters of the revolution and the work of construction are the masses… — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
“if we are on the look-out for evil in others, our real motive is obviously to justify ourselves, for we are seeking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I came from the time of so-called New Criticism - the poem in itself, the writing in itself - but around that… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England… — Lajos Kossuth 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
If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate… — Bhikkhu Analayo Copy Share Image
