73 Quotes About Motive





  • Author George Eliot
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    To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

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  • Author Carrie Fisher
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    No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

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  • Author Stephen King
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    Why didn't you kill me like you did that guy back there? Billy? Or does it even make any sense to ask? Are you beyond why?'Oh shit, we're all beyond why, you know that.

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