Quotes About Motive

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

M got into difficulties. Somebody – and since the client was dead it wasn't clear who – didn't like his two paintings.

Selv den svageste uelskede ejer en gnist af det stærke heltebarn, dvs. en lille mulighed for at forvandle de andres Nej til et Ja til sig selv. At fornemme egen mangel peger på et uudnyttet potentiale til selvaktivitet.

Being-'subject' means taking up a position from which an actor can make the transition from theory to practice. This transition usually takes place once an actor has found the motive that liberates them from hesitation and disinhibits them for action.

1 am not "up to" anything, Cousin Edgar.

A first impulse was never a crime.

It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.

I'm actually interested in poor behavior. I'm interested in what drives people to poor behavior.

And Pip wanted to do good, if only for lack of better ambitions.

Sign this... and I'll show you

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive, of our actions; and although it happen not to attend the worthy deed, yet it is by no means the less fair for having missed the applause it deserved.

A selfish person always alters his/her principal according to his /her benefit.

The end justifies the means.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.

She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.

No such private nights of ecstasy or hushed-up drinking and sex orgies ever occurred. They might have occurred if either General Dreedle or General Peckem had once evinced an interest in taking part in orgies with him, but neither ever did, and the colonel was certainly not going to waste his time and energy making love to beautiful women unless there was something in it for him.

For his part, the stranger was drifting in Annabel's direction, yet not very deliberately. As if, in some way, he were being drawn to her, by some (unconscious) motion or motive of Annabel herself. Why

Desiring the exhilarations of changes: The motive for metaphor, shrinking from The weight of primary noon ...

The agitation of the slavery question is mischievous and wicked, and proceeds from no patriotic motive by its authors," Polk wrote in late December 1848.

the cardinal rule when it comes to assassinations. It's not important who fires the shot. It's who pays for the bullet.

You know what they say about assassinations, Don Orsati. The important thing is not who fired the shot but who paid for the bullet.

And we both know the cardinal rule when it comes to assassinations. It's not important who fires the shot. It's who pays for the bullet. - Graham Seymour

Everything we do is for a reason.