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
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact… — George Eliot 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
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
When you look at a character and you're like, "Wow, that's really unexplored terrain for me and there's a lot happening here… — Hoon Lee Copy Share Image
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an… — Anonymous 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
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, you leftists: you're not the only people whose motives are pure. — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The motive is this, 'Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are. — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
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
One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it)… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love. — Marion G. Romney 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
The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put… — Mabel Collins Copy Share Image
Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful… — Rick Riordan 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
You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll… — Sydney Lea Copy Share Image
