I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations. — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Resolutely ignoring Banu's dark mutterings, steeling herself against the barrage of harsh words that questioned her motives, her upbringing, and her morality” — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I can understand that people who have a very different view to mine are motivated by the purest of motives. All I… — Scott Morrison Copy Share Image
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
We can not too much or too often warn against the lax or even base manner of thought which seeks its principles… — Kant Copy Share Image
“Most known motives are so suspect these days that I doubt whether the hidden ones are any better. All the same,” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha 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 are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and… — Dee Dee Myers 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
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
People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
“You can't truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are - what motivates them...?” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“Art needs motives that are more profound than profit if it is to maintain its difference from—and position above—other cultural forms.” — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for… — Bram Fischer Copy Share Image
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
“Though the motives which governed me may to you very naturally appear insufficient, I have not yet learned to condemn them.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Because I don't understand what would be someone's motives to want to go into space, where you're possibly going to die, and… — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
I feel like, especially in Hollywood, you meet people with ulterior motives, who are trying to get something from you. — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
