Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Maybe you play a melody twice. You play it once like you like it, and some parts that you don't like you… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don't want to… — Adam Brody Copy Share Image
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
... I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to… — Thomas McKean Copy Share Image
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed. — Margaret Preston Copy Share Image
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
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