And these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall in no wise go unrewarded: here, by the testimony of an… — Richard Mant Copy Share Image
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to… — Ossian Everett Mills Copy Share Image
Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
I deplore the horrible crime as child murder…no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
When I might be on a business trip, a lot of people are partying and they may be drunk or under the… — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll… — Sydney Lea 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
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I don't know what Donal Trump motive is but I know what he's preaching is a very, very dangerous brew for America.… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
There's a hidden history. You see, Malcolm X and [Alex ] Haley collaborated to produce a magnificent narrative about the life of… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The motive for discipling others begins in the love of God and nothing less. He has loved us in Christ, and so… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Showing kindness causes oxytocin release in the recipient that motives him or her to be kind to others. You can start this… — Paul J. Zak Copy Share Image
Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
Your principal motive on a movie set is to get the film made, but on a Woody Allen set, there's an ulterior… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world. That's their motive,… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a compelling motive we have for prayer, for preaching, for soul winning when we learn that every responsible human being who… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
The ability to discern the thoughts and motives of your heart (especially when experiencing intense emotion) is an essential skill for the… — Lou Priolo Copy Share Image
We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in… — Michael Pollan 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
If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand,… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
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