Motive Quote by Victor Hugo Download Open image “The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.” — Victor Hugo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Motive Response Terrible
Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part. — Stephen C. Meyer Copy Share Image
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes REASONS are not really reasons,sometimes they are just stupid,nonsense,never ending EXCUSES. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive. — Carmen Yulin Cruz 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
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner 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 and the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You can drive yourself crazy trying to peer into a person's soul--or you can do the sensible thing: ask not what inner motives drive… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. — Claude Adrien Helvetius 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 in the… — Carlos P. Romulo Copy Share Image
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me a long… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
