#motive

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. ↗

— George Eliot

#every #monster #motives #same #set

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#baseball #clear #eyes #i #league

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest. ↗

— George Combe

#become #brain #brief #fatigued #i

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#body #body language #displays #emotions #emotive

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. ↗

— Stand Watie

#bad #blunder #crime #get #great

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

— William Butler Yeats

#always #deed #light #lights #looks

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#approbation #beholds #children #common #differently

Profit per se is not my motive. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#per #profit

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

#dispositions #get #inside #less #motives

Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#controversy #enemies #fools #issues #motives