Quotes About Motive

acting because of them is.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go murder a man.

Twenty-five thousand," Maggie murmured. A tidy sum, even tidier ten years ago. "You're telling me you think the money was the motive for murder?" "Money's always a motive for murder, and it's a loose end.

The reason behind everything always has to be something else entirely.

Experience was made up of endless ambiguities—of motive, of feeling, of cause and effect—and if he was to win under such circumstances, he had to understand how those ambiguities worked.

Murderers were not writing literature, after all; they were murdering.

Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

If you give a gift with something behind it, with an ulterior motive that you feel good about, then you are still planting habitual patterns in the back of your mind.

Don't trust the right thing, done for the wrong reason. The 'why' of a thing—that's the foundation.

Personal interest is very rarely a powerful motive force with crowds, while it is almost the exclusive motive of the conduct of the isolated individual.

I want to kill someone," Tai said. A pause to consider this. "I am familiar with the desire. It is sometimes effective. Not invariably.

That was the funniest thing I'd heard in days. You're kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you have a stronger motive for me than 'fair is fair.' Life isn't FAIR, Dean....Nothing is fair, EVER. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I need to help you because FAIR IS FAIR? Try, 'I need you to help me so I won't rip out your spine and beat you with it.' I MIGHT respond to that. MAYBE.

If you know the why, you can figure out the who.

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Understanding government can be a complex business. The stated reason for a policy and the real reason for it are rarely the same.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Bad aims will spoil good actions.

Nobody does anything for one reason.

It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him.

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Every word we speak is an indestructible force, because it affirms a thought, a sentiment, an emotion, a motive, which never ceases to exert its power.