#motive

My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other. ↗

— Donna Leon

#cannot #comprehend #desire #film #get

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

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

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#action #every #every man #him #man

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

— Shannon L. Alder

#controversy #enemies #fools #issues #motives

We rarely do anything with on single motive. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#paul-david-tripp #change

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#devotional #formula- #design

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. ↗

— Sarojini Naidu

#courage #deeper #earnestness #greater #motive

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#atop-an-underwood #beat #inspirational #jack-kerouac #locomotive

Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#intentions #motives #oppose #motivational

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

— P.D. James

#murder #pd-james #the-murder-room #love