motives Quotes

“The distance is nothing when one has motive.”

“Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.”

″‘Why did you do it anyway?‘he says. ‘I don’t know. To show them that I’m more than just a piece in their Games?’ I say.”

“What are you doing here, Rorschach? This is a Government base and I hear you’re wanted by the police?”

“I fought that war to preserve justice in this world.”

“How, if I know all this, you may ask, could I hound him--shatter him again and again. dive him deeper and deeper into woe? I have no answer, except perhaps this: why should I not? Has he made any move to deserve my kindness?”

“Things that cause friendship are: doing kindnesses; doing them unasked; and not proclaiming the fact when they are done, which shows that they were done for our own sake and not for some other reason.”

″ We knew that the girls were our twins ... they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. ”

“Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.”

“Why did she leave all of her property to Uncle Elwood? Well, I suppose it was because she dies in his arms.”

“Fifteen-year-old Jess’s grandfather has just had a major heart attack, but he insists he finish his painting, River Boy. At first, Jess cannot understand why this painting is so important to her grandfather, especially since there doesn’t seem to be any boy in it at all. But while swimming in the river herself, Jess begins to feel the presence of a strange boy. Could this be the same one her ailing grandfather struggles to paint? And if so, why has he returned?”

“You see,” he said to Bill, as they walked back, “we know that Cayley is perjuring himself and risking himself over this business, and that must be for one of two reasons. Either to save Mark or to endanger him. That is to say, he is either whole-heartedly for him or whole-heartedly against him. Well, now we know that he is against him, definitely against him.”

They have, perhaps, some motive to serve in hastening the ruin of a rival firm.

I have always wanted some other motive for his conduct than appeared.

“We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.”

“I can’t act except from the heart, and you act from principle. I liked you simply, but you most likely only wanted to save me, to improve me.”