For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes! — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred,… — Jack Ruby Copy Share Image
A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
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
No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive. — Kendra Wilkinson 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
A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
A very tall man once asked a question after my talk. Before beginning his question, he explained that the reason he was… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive,… — Deborah Turbeville Copy Share Image
Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or… — Paul Ekman 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
A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
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