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
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people,… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
You gotta question the purpose you serve for those who invite themselves into your life. Learn who you are and always question… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. — Isaac Asimov 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 last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them… — Vanna Bonta 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
The psychic does not have much to do with channeling. All you are doing is getting information from a source that may… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Let your light shine before others, sothat they may see your good works.” So the motive at stake is not simply whether… — John Piper Copy Share Image
To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
For the majority of instances where money is desired for the admitted object of blessing others, the real underlying motive is a… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Writer's block comes from the feeling that one is doing the wrong thing or doing the right thing badly. Fiction written for… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political. — Earle Brown Copy Share Image
The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it. — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts. — John Piper Copy Share Image
One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“It was the desire of appearing superior to other people. The motive was too common to be wondered at.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are? — Confucius Copy Share Image
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions… This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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