#motive

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cruel #delights #father #make #man

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. ↗

— Larry David

#because #bush #end #finally #guard

The motive power of democracy is love. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#love #motive #power

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

— George Eliot

#every #monster #motives #same #set

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do. ↗

— Sally Field

#certain #i #i do #issue #just

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

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. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#appeared #constant #earlier #forms #heat

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave. ↗

— Janos Kadar

#joined #leave #motives #ones #other

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed? ↗

— John Keegan

#does #extraordinary #gone #happen #how

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