This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

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

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

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?

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

It's the millenium, motives are incidental.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

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.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.