Quotes About Motive

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

Everyone has lied for some reason or the other.

So what's the left's motive here? The short-term motive is simple: use the illegals to portray Trump and the Republicans as racist or anti-Mexican and also anti-immigrant. The point is to alienate Trump and the GOP not from illegals, who can't vote, but from legal immigrants and Mexican Americans, who can.

But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.

The point is, I was going to get a gun and that's why

But this graveyard of dead books doesn't unnerve me. It reminds me that I had a deeper motive, one that only the approach of old age and death has unlocked. I wrote to answer questions I had — the motive of all art, whatever its ostensible subject. There were things I urgently needed to know.

We do what we do because it serves some need.

Communion with God is the one need of the soul beyond all other need," wrote George MacDonald. "Prayer is the beginning of that communion and some need is the motive of that prayer."2

She liked doing things, and only then finding a reason for doing them.

Murder must be punished, but murder can also be justified.

Lacy had no idea of their frustration. For five months now, every lead had gone nowhere. Every Crime Stopper's tip had done nothing but waste more time. Every new theory had eventually petered out. Verno's murder was so carefully planned that there had to be a reason for it, but motive eluded them. Little was known of his unremarkable past. On the other hand, they were convinced that Dunwoody had simply picked the wrong spot.

An articulate community, liberal in the United States, social democratic or socialist in Europe and Japan, does ascribe economic or other motive to the interest-serving view. This can be quite wrong. What rewards particular interest may reflect only a normal tendency to self-benefiting expression and action.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

Remember, people will always judge you by your actions and not by your intentions.

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.

This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other

The esoteric system is all based upon the ultimate motive. Ultimate motive is the service of truth itself, a complete dedication to the service of the realities of existence.

This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience some of those exceptional moments when one thirsts for something other than what is, and when those who, through lack of energy or imagination, are unable to generate any motive power in themselves, cry out, as the clock strikes or the postman knocks, for something new, even if it worse, some emotion, some sorrow..; however cruel.

The maddog was intelligent. He was a member of the bar. He derived rules. Never kill anyone you know. Never have a motive. Never follow a discernible pattern. Never carry a weapon after it has been used. Isolate yourself from random discovery. Beware of leaving physical evidence.

Intention, good or bad, is not enough.

Para cometer una mala acción hay que anhelar algo

Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write.