Quotes About Motive

For 'Motive,' it wasn't a question of making it look un-Canadian, but instead, we wanted it to be the product of a bunch of really skilled people making something. And that's what you have.

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.

Don't ever do anything on principle alone. If you haven't got a better reason for doing something other than the principle of the thing, then don't do it.

If this guy ever had an unselfish thought, as my mama would say, it would die of loneliness.

Nobody does anything for nothing.

The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.

Suicide is a form of murder—premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

If he was scared enough to try to kill me, it wasn't without a cause.", FADE by Kailin Gow

One cannot listen to different pieces of music at the same time, a real comprehension of the beautiful being possible only through concentration upon some central motive.

We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

Pity can be a powerful tool. Anytime you can make someone else feel something, you've got power over them.

However," he continued, "duty should not be accepted without question. Duty can be a motive, but should not be an excuse.

It's not what you do; it's why you do it that makes the difference.

She still doesn't trust my motives?" He was grinning now.

Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve?

She murdered for her truth, and they had died for theirs.

Behind every "Truth" there is always a "Lie", Behind every " Lie" there is always a "Reason", and behind every " Reason" there is always a "Person"....

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Jade would never kill anyone just because. With reason, though, yeah. Twice-over, with interest, and more than a little attitude, maybe even something a little extra, for style points.

El amor es incondicional. El miedo está lleno de condiciones. En

Hell, why should I have to find a pretext for every single thing I do?