Motive Quotations

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them.

Unless one believes in a superhuman reason which directs evolution, one is bound to believe in a reason inherent in humanity, a motive power transcending that of each separate people, just as the power of the organism transcends that of the organ. This reason increases in proportion as the unity of mankind becomes established.

Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone's Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

I've been pretty good at reading people. If you rockin' with me cause you're just a solid individual, then we're rockin'. But if you got a motive or something, I am going to probably see right through that.

My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.

'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.

To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.

We have no information that words were exchanged between them . . . or of any prior neighbor dispute. We have no information about what Miller was doing outside. The motive is unknown.

The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,

When you decide whether or not to charge someone with a crime, you want to know as many facts as possible. You want to know what their motive is. ... You want to know their intent. ... If you are asking me what his motives were, I can't tell you.

When you buy a vase cheap, look for the flaw; when a man offers favors, look for the motive

When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.

She would be asked about things very unsympathetic about him. For instance, his hatred of the federal government, which is what the prosecution said was the motive behind this killing.

Since they have done that we have even more of a motive to be public.

Motive is something we're not getting into at this point and time.

No one becomes a Karma-yogi who has not renounced the selfish motive behind an action.

Now we have a new government, so our motive to produce non-alcoholic beer becomes stronger.

My understanding is they're focusing on everyone who was in the building that day. And if someone had a motive to start a fire and wanted to make it appear that Mark Anderson had started it, around his area is exactly where they'd do it. Mark Anderson had no motive to start the fire and is not responsible for it.

I don't get his move. I don't understand the motive for that. I think he's made a mistake. I think he needed some ego restoration, probably. I'll tell you, he came into arguably the toughest conference in college football and I'll tell you, it's not going to be the same. I know the South Carolina fans are excited, but. . .

I am certainly not ascribing to the defenders of euthanasia or assisted dying any motive but the desire to spare people unnecessary suffering,

I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive.

From the defense standpoint, I think that's some crucial information that really can be used to bolster their claim that the accuser has a less-than-honorable motive in bringing the charges. As a defense lawyer, that's something I would want to investigate completely to see if she's crying wolf. If she's crying wolf in 1996, then potentially she could be crying wolf in 2006.

He would have no motive whatsoever to set a fire. Mark may be the obvious culprit, as in 'the butler did it.' But I've played enough Clue to know that the butler never does it.

He has most of the dailies that now surround San Francisco proper and this only enlarges his presence in the area. With the California properties, Singleton has more of a motive than other folks to pay a higher price because it would enhance what he already owns.

He has the motive and the way to leave and he will do so.

Whatever it is that leads men to fight and suffer, to face mutilation and death, the motive is not now self-interest in any material sense.

We take any incident like this very, very seriously. Obviously, kids could have been hurt by this device. If this was a prank, or whatever motive they had in doing this, there's no excuse to do something like this.

God will not ask you when and where you did service? He will ask, with what motive did you do it? What was the intention that prompted you? You may weigh the service and boast of its quantity. But God seeks quality - the quality of heart, the purity of mind, the holiness of motive.

His vehicle is still outstanding, so one possible motive is auto theft, ... Other than that, we don't really have any motives right now.

He is virulently anti-Western and is particularly anti-American, ... and he has the resources to fund considerable anti-American or anti-Western activity. So he is a concern, because he's got a clear motive and he's got the means to carry out -- or to pay people to carry out -- attacks.

I think the big issue is Kaplan - if the jury believes him we have a problem, if they don't, we're okay. Our expected defense would be Steve is a very talented detective with no motive and had no opportunity to do a lot of these things.

lack of support for the government's policies; harsh and dangerous domestic incitement against the government and the obstruction of its functions, and unjustified accusations that the government and the prime minister had the motive of either having control over everything or nothing.

I think it was amazing he was convicted the first time. He lacked opportunity to commit the crime, he lacked motive and he had a real shoddy defense.

Jason Weir is the person who had the motive to do this. Jason Weir is the one who had the opportunity to do this.

I ruefully realized I should have listened to my own common sense rather than the advice of others who have the less-than-altruistic motive of making money,

I respectfully ask legal authorities to launch an investigation as soon as possible. I am desperate to find out who switched the samples for what motive and how.

Our suspicion at this time is that the motive was theft.

My motive for running is to get Texas out of the 'Thank God for Mississippi' club.

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

The amazing part is that there appears to be a lack of any motive behind this except destruction.

We can't let down our guard, ... The motive of these particular individuals remains unclear. However, my greatest concern is that they were able to gain access to the installation at all.

We have no ulterior motive here, ... There's no reason for us hide this information. We want to get it out.

The preliminary motive appears to be some type of argument, maybe over some prescriptions. We are still interviewing some people and still trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together.

We're not sure what the motive was, but for safety reasons we advise motorists to use cell phones and call the police.

We don't know what the motive of this act is at this time, ... This was a senseless murder. We have some ideas of what may have happened but we don't want to speculate.

The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

The motive of success is not enough.

The fact that someone might have a marginal motive to get rid of someone doesn't mean they killed them.

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's really smart or illuminating. I don't read any reviews anymore and it's been really liberating.

actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

We're trying to pursue all our leads. It's anybody's guess what his motive is.

We thought at a time when you're introducing a new technology, it is probably wise to do so in a way that encourages public trust rather than public distrust. For-profit sites face the same hurdle as any other site on the Internet: What is the motive behind the people providing the information? That begs the next question: What do they do with the information I give them? What's their agenda?

This was a happy couple. David is innocent. There?s absolutely no motive here.

We were surprised that Sikorsky was a no-show after the company's non- stop rhetoric about wanting to negotiate. The empty chairs show Sikorsky's true motive -- to try to break the resolve of striking Teamsters. And that's a lost cause because Teamsters don't back down.

The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West to federal holding pens. The government claims it's to save the horses from starvation. Critics claim the real motive is to clear the land for cattle grazing. Critics also say the horses are brutally traumatized.

To my knowledge, there is no motive at this time. That's what makes this case all the more complicated.

The original deal translated into an average price of 535,000 pounds per pub, whilst the average price received per pub disposed of in this transaction is 329,000 per pub indicating a quality motive for this sale.

There is not a man among them whose particular aim I am not able to ascertain, and from what motive they have entered into the lists of opposition.

There is something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive

This was about money, the oldest motive in the world.

We try to refrain from making value judgments -- what the motive is. But the fact is that (Wal-Mart was) there with trailer trucks being turned away. Amazing, isn't it?

We're very fortunate that nobody was injured. We don't know that there was a motive for the shooting, if it was random or intentional, but if anyone knows anything, we want them to call 911 or 88-CRIME.

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

There's obviously some political motive in the parade of his arrest.

Seeing that made me more conscious of a man needing a motive to live.

Of course we condemn this act, an act meant to sabotage what is happening here. I think we should consider this as a motive for all of us to work harder to reach an agreement that is good for both of us, that is fair for both of us.

No robbery that we can see as motive at this time is undetermined.

The motive may never be known. It may have been a random thing. What set him off is the big question we're trying to find out.

The motive is unknown at this point in the investigation. However it is fair to say that the immediate area has been an area of concern as far as drug and illicit activity in the South Troy section.

The motive is simple. Their strategy is to focus on core pharmaceutical business. Clearly, the drug business is more profitable.