Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past.… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
One little human truth is that opinionated people don't hold much with other people's opinions, and it is a great pleasure to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
“The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it… — Cleveland Abbe 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
I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto.… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that… — Ira Remsen Copy Share Image
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience.… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I talk to groups studying the most advanced spiritual teachings and sometimes these people wonder why nothing is happening in their lives.… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive. — Walter Inglis Anderson Copy Share Image
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be. — Eugen Kogon Copy Share Image
My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that? — Cameron Bright Copy Share Image
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. — Virgil Copy Share Image
A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but… — David Frum Copy Share Image
