The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence —...

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

NOTICEPersons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.BY ORDER...

The motive for our actions doesn’t lie ahead of us. It’s something behind us that we’re trying to escape.

Incredibly, he wore an incredulous look on his face like he had no idea what she was insinuating. Did she just accuse him of murder? I hope she did, because I have no alibi, but...

All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.

There were three things sought by invaders who crossed oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory. There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens to discover planet earth. Those are gold,...

It’s too risky to take no risks at all

The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.

Mistakes are a combination of your choices and has nothing to do with your capacity.

Your heart influences your art.

Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally as good...

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?

There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.

Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?

The “layman” need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred...

Unfortunately for the defendant, any abuse in this case is a motive for doing what he did. It certainly isn’t self-defense. He wasn’t currently in a fight with his father. He planned a murder ahead...

Right now we don’t see any connection at all, but that could change, … Unless he left a note or there’s something else, we may never know the motive.

Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.

My religious conversion is not inspired by any material motive. This is hardly anything I cannot achieve even while remaining an Untouchable. There is no other feeling than that of a spiritual feeling underlying my...

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

Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute,

My motive behind the appointment of the group is not to find fault with the U.S. effort there now, … Such an independent, comprehensive review could help to assure Americans no matter what their opinion...

Sometimes to make no move is to make the wrong move. That’s how I fell in love with a statue. We just sat still and I formed a connection.

A business fails when motive becomes more important than the trust.

We’re in the beginning stages of the investigation. We’re looking for a motive or if this is even a homicide. We’re looking at it as a suspicious situation because of the way the body was...

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.

What is a goal without a purpose?