I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Be creative in that sense and your creativity will become an offering to God. God has given you so many gifts, Garima;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being proud of America, believing that America can do great things. America can do great things, it has… — Peter Beinart 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
Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
If you seek His help, be sure your life is clean, your motives are worthy, and you're willing to do what He… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
