Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virgil

The noblest motive is the public good.

Emile M. Cioran

One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

Margaret Thatcher

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

Paul Valery

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

Craig Moffett

As always with Cablevision, their motives are inscrutable,

Jim Amormino

The motive may never be known. It may have been a random thing. What set him off is the big question we're trying to find out.

Tim Fanning

The motive at this time is not clear.

Roger Thompson

Sony's motives are reasonable from their point of view, but it's a terrible security hole.

Tom Connor

This was about money, the oldest motive in the world.

Tom Nutten

It actually works, and he obviously has no inhibition to show it. I think it has some kind of a gravitational pull, because everything does go towards him. That's why he is the center, and he is in the middle.

Jamie Campbell Bower

'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

Kate Middleton

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

Burt Stellers

I thought we rebounded harder, and defensively we were a lot more intense. They took it to us the first time. For us to come back and get a victory was obviously a positive.

John Gordon Sinclair

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

Robert Wiley

I think that his performances (in the WAFL) have been outstanding and (he's come into the side) obviously to replace Phillip Matera,

Kerry Haigh

We're obviously disappointed for the spectators who were unable to see the finish. We all wanted to see a finish, obviously.

Peter Beattie

He'll obviously want to return to the U.S. as soon as possible,

Adam Ereli

And obviously this strategic partnership has an important role in that.

Brice Boling

I want to be in the parade of champions.

Pete Townshend

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

Frank Gendreau

They take part in parades all over the Northeast.

P. J. O'Rourke

Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.

Phil Durocher

Sometimes, when there's a parade forming, you have to be able to see that and get in line.

Jerry Mitchell

I think he thought he was going to get a parade when he killed Medgar Evers.

Liz Huff

We would like to see the parade re-energized with more entries too.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

Sarah Palin

I can see November from my house.