The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be,… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied. — Frederick Lenz 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
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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 underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives… — Gordon B. Hinckley 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
Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
