Quotes About Motive

It isn't what he did, Mrs. Wiggin. It's why.

Who would steal them? No idea. They didnt leave a note.

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

A man usually has two reasons for doing a thing: the one that sounds good and the real one.

Love is the cause of causes

You can't change the world if your motive is revenge. Vibes like that just aren't productive.

I want to do it as quickly as I can, for reasons," answered Diantha.

There are reasons for everything we do.

WOLLNER: I killed them because they were evil people. BAUSEN: Evil? WOLLNER: Evil people. BAUSEN: Was that the only reason? WOLLNER: It's reason enough.

Children at play, birds of prey," Lucien said, closing out his register, "and dogs may chase anything that moves. But in general, we are not pursued because we run; we run because we are pursued. Someone wanted something from this girl --love, money, her body, her mind. Find out what pursued your friend, and you find your friend.

For the thief and the humanitarian each have the same motive — to do what he believes will make him feel good. In fact, we can't avoid a very significant conclusion: Everyone is selfish.

Over the years I had convinced myself that brutality required motive, but this is a fool's deceit. Cruelty is the motive; religion and politics and resources are simply the cloth man weaves to curtain his desires for violence.

As far as I could tell, people didn't do things because they were good or evil. They did things because they could not think of what else to do

As far as I could tell, people didn't do things because they were good or evil. They did things because they could not think of what else to do

There is a reason for all things and all things have a reason.

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

where there is a disposition to dislike, a motive will never be wanting

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

No, indeed, I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive;

The writer, like a murderer, needs a motive.

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

y ambos son razones horribles para hacer las cosas».

But of greater concern is the fact that psychologists tend to give progressively less attention to a motive which pervades our entire lives. Psychologists

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.