Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation.… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part. — Stephen C. Meyer 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
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive. — Walter Inglis Anderson 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
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.... — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in… — Kenneth E. Iverson 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
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“All the same, lots of women buy their clothes in Paris, and have not, on that account, necessarily poisoned their husbands.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as… — Ronald Reagan 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
You know, you can't always criticize without somebody being at the end of the stick. And she perhaps did not always grant… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
That was the funniest thing I'd heard in days. You're kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you have a stronger motive for me… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
