Famous Quotes & Sayings

Magnanimity has no need to prove the prudence of its motives

Since they have done that we have even more of a motive to be public.

Stephane Hessel

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

Motive is something we're not getting into at this point and time.

Our suspicion at this time is that the motive was theft.

Bharati Mukherjee

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

C. S. Lewis

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

Emile M. Cioran

One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

As always with Cablevision, their motives are inscrutable,

No robbery that we can see as motive at this time is undetermined.

The motive may never be known. It may have been a random thing. What set him off is the big question we're trying to find out.

The motive at this time is not clear.

Sony's motives are reasonable from their point of view, but it's a terrible security hole.

This was about money, the oldest motive in the world.

There's obviously some political motive in the parade of his arrest.

Paul Valery

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

Margaret Thatcher

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

Mason Cooley

I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.

Virgil

The noblest motive is the public good.