#motive

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#consistency #depends #i #impression #made

A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place. ↗

— Tina Yothers

#good #good people #good place #help #hurt

Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#destroyed #direction #effect #emotive #energy

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well. ↗

— John Sununu

#assume #bad #else #faith #first

Profit per se is not my motive. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#per #profit

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#action #every #every man #him #man

Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive. ↗

— John Moody

#did #earliest #even #horses #locomotive

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

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. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#also #atmosphere #both #close #dreams

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

— George Eliot

#every #monster #motives #same #set