Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them nice to… — Christopher Isherwood 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
In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Motive lies behind action. It is the root of behaviour and attitude, the fuel we need to progress from desire to achievement.… — Sarah Tun Copy Share Image
Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees,… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
God alone is perfectly and consistently just. We forget; God remembers. We see an action; God sees a motive. This qualifies Him… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I feel like you can't trust a cat. I feel like a cat's got an ulterior motive. The moment you show any… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For 'Motive,' it wasn't a question of making it look un-Canadian, but instead, we wanted it to be the product of a… — Kristin Lehman Copy Share Image
I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I really think of my motives, my melodies, my harmonies, as being these things that are very much alive. They have these… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Any attention to them (terrorists) on the part of the media, any double-standard interpretation of their motives and results of their activity… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The desire of one, and the motive of one in being sensible would be high.. but altogether the ascense and motive is… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson 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 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
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
