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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
Lois McMaster Bujold

That's what's so strange: There's no motive.
Michael Brenner

We're in the beginning stages of the investigation. We're looking for a motive or if this is even a homicide. We're looking at it as a suspicious situation because of the way the body was found.
David Elliot

Now we have a new government, so our motive to produce non-alcoholic beer becomes stronger.
Nadim Khoury

We have a very strong case against him, and as far as motive, it doesn't matter. Our case is rock solid.
Warren Strain

There was no apparent motive for the attack. It doesn't seem related to religion.
Raphael Bergeron

We have absolutely no idea what the motive is. These appear to be almost execution-style shootings. He expended a large number of rounds inside that house.
Gil Kerlikowske

We can't let down our guard, ... The motive of these particular individuals remains unclear. However, my greatest concern is that they were able to gain access to the installation at all.
Robin Hayes

Right now we don't see any connection at all, but that could change, ... Unless he left a note or there's something else, we may never know the motive.
Brent Mull

I just felt like cutting my hair, ... There wasn't a secret motive behind it. I just finally got tired of it. It was hot, bothersome.
Reggie Brown

The motive at this time is not clear.
Tim Fanning

Motive is something we're not getting into at this point and time.
Walter Wilson

There is nothing at this time that suggests a motive.
Ray Kelly

The three wounded are being treated in hospital. We will interrogate them to find out who they are and what their motive was.
Ala Husni

We have some conflicting information, but right now we have no motive.
Vincent P. Sarubbi

This was a happy couple. David is innocent. There?s absolutely no motive here.
George V. Higgins

I am certainly not ascribing to the defenders of euthanasia or assisted dying any motive but the desire to spare people unnecessary suffering.
Rowan Williams

When you decide whether or not to charge someone with a crime, you want to know as many facts as possible. You want to know what their motive is. ... You want to know their intent. ... If you are asking me what his motives were, I can't tell you.
Patrick Fitzgerald

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

I think that's possible, but I don't think that's his main motive. His motive is profit. But we certainly could reap some benefit out of it.
Barry Cottrell

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
Stanley Baldwin

The difference between what is payable now and what would be payable in August is huge and provides the defendant with a huge motive to stay.
Michael Mendelson

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

The amazing part is that there appears to be a lack of any motive behind this except destruction.
David Mayer

Of course we condemn this act, an act meant to sabotage what is happening here. I think we should consider this as a motive for all of us to work harder to reach an agreement that is good for both of us, that is fair for both of us.
Marwan Kanafani

The investigation will determine what his (Akbar's) motive may have been. He was having what some people might call, it seems, an attitude problem.
George Heath

We take any incident like this very, very seriously. Obviously, kids could have been hurt by this device. If this was a prank, or whatever motive they had in doing this, there's no excuse to do something like this.
Keith Bromery

He has the motive and the way to leave and he will do so.
Stephanie Pell

There's no economic motive. The point is to capture, and share, fantastic, fleeting moments.
Chuck Olsen

It's just a divisive tactic that probably has political motive. We are aggressively lobbying legislatures to oppose the amendment.
Steven Black

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
Katherine Whitehorn

He would have no motive whatsoever to set a fire. Mark may be the obvious culprit, as in 'the butler did it.' But I've played enough Clue to know that the butler never does it.
Douglas Rappaport

I have no ulterior motive than to help small businesses.
Mayor Dean Mazzarella

They had come to Delhi to carry out explosions and attacks at public places; we are investigating their motive.
Karnail Singh

Have you ever heard of first-degree murder without a motive. Use your common sense. He did not even know Ronnie Green.
Geoffrey Fieger

The minister has sent his letter of resignation to the head of government. He gave as the motive for his decision the creation of the new coalition.
Pawel Dobrowolski

Much work still needs to be done. We are still trying to determine the exact motive.
Jimmy Lee

There's obviously some political motive in the parade of his arrest.
Richard Sharpstein

Now they want to point out that this has happened over and over again, and it was never a motive for murder.
Dean Johnson

We're trying to pursue all our leads. It's anybody's guess what his motive is.
Angela Bozorth

It's like a revolution. It's a new way of thinking about how you do forestry. It's about approaching business with a conservation motive upfront, instead of an industrial approach to the forest.
Merran Smith

Robbery was obviously the motive.
Stan Smith

Since they have done that we have even more of a motive to be public.
Carlo Piana

Our car was driving slowly ... the Americans fired without motive.
Giuliana Sgrena

Jason Weir is the person who had the motive to do this. Jason Weir is the one who had the opportunity to do this.
Robert Griffin

The fact that someone might have a marginal motive to get rid of someone doesn't mean they killed them.
Harland Braun

The family knew it from day one. We know this was a murder. We know the motive. We know . . . we know a lot more than I can talk to you about today.
Michael Holden

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
Anna Jameson

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude Adrien Helvetius

At this time, the motive -- if there is one -- appears to be financial.
Martha Coakley

If you were going to condemn someone to life in prison, you need to know why, to have some motive ... it's not there.
Bill Schultz

This was about money, the oldest motive in the world.
Tom O'connor

The motive behind limiting what browser you develop for is laziness. If you develop Web applications, you must develop to the W3C standards. You do not use Microsoft's proprietary capabilities because you'll get caught in it later.
Richard Stiennon

I respectfully ask legal authorities to launch an investigation as soon as possible. I am desperate to find out who switched the samples for what motive and how.
Hwang Woo Suk

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.
Jim Amormino

Were the sales in January created by a tax motive? Probably.
Laurence Foster

I don't have to have a motive, all I have to do is prove that he killed them during the course of a kidnapping.
James Powell

This might increase people's motive to hold more foreign currency, thus largely decreasing our country's risk on foreign currency.
Yi Xianrong

We believe the motive [of the shooting ] was to punish Kinsey for abusing his ex-wife and see that she didn't have to go through that again.
Sgt. Jarrard Copeland

I don't know the motive. What I can tell you is there's definitely two males that are dead.
Keith Smith

However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We don't yet know the precise motive. There was a significant amount of explosives placed in the car but we don't yet know how it detonated.
Joergen Bro

So there's another motive for recommending these people, ... I think it's incredibly confusing for investors.
Karl Graf

We are still trying to establish the exact motive.
Jimmy Lee

It's something we've been doing for years. We compete against those teams to have us playing at the highest level. That's our motive.
Ed Khouri

Someone with inside knowledge is going to be able to do more harm than your standard run of the mill hacker. We know that the majority of harm, at least things that cost a lot of money, occur because of insiders. If they have the same access as before, they have motive, means and opportunity.
Eric Maiwald

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