Motive Quotes

There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job - but the reason for all of this stuff is somebody's making a profit off our backs. That's the reason why black people were brought here in the first place. It was a profit motive. Boots Riley

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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that? Cameron Bright

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There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive. Carmen Yulin Cruz

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Science is not the means by which we come to understand why physical laws and circumstances are the way they are. When we ask why - assuming the question is really 'why' and not 'how' - we are really asking to know the motive of some responsible agent capable of reason. Carolyn Porco

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Dissolving differences has always been an important motive for my writing, right from 'The Mistress of Spices.' Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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Profit per se is not my motive. Chris Hughes

Profit Per Motive

For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered. Claire Denis

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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. Ernest Hemingway

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I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology. George Packer

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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man. Haniel Long

The motive power of democracy is love. Henri Bergson

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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. Herbert Hoover

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men. Jean de la Bruyere

Alone Character Men Gives Motive Which Actions

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot. Jon Meacham

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity. Joseph Jacobs

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Cartels south of the border actually have a lot in common with ISIS. In fact, ISIS could learn a thing or two from their gruesome tactics. The biggest differences between the two are motive and religion. Katie Pavlich

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I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive. Kendra Wilkinson

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