Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
I'm not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I'm not going to worry about… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have...… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I find it quite difficult to analyze my own motives for things. I tend to go with a gut feeling in the… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will… — Jon Landau 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
The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“I didn't have a motive. I didn't to it. You did. What are you writing?" " Motive - Don't know. " "What… — Pamela Branch Copy Share Image
“Go out and heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons and preach the kingdom. But do it for only one… — Praying Medic Copy Share Image
A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“In the end, Vasile knew he couldn’t take any other path. He knew he needed a purpose to his life, one that… — Mitchell Hogan Copy Share Image
Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, Satan and God may want the exact same event to take place - but for different… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine any single special interest trying to buy an office without a motive. — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good? — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
“Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
