“Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.” PeopleKnowsFeelsDoeHelpingYoungTurnsSexClearRiskGenerationsReadySafeDespiteNarrativeMake SenseMotiveAppropriateRebellionPhasesShellsRebelliousTextbooks Author:Daniel Handler
“I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For one thing, I get asked about writing novels so much that I feel guilty about never having written one. And although I have no strong desire to write a novel, I would hate not to try. That would just be silly. On the other hand, I hate the idea of slogging through something that turns out to be not good.” FeelsWritingTryingIdeasHandsDesireHateTurnsStrongNovelWrittenOne ThingPureI HateSillyGuiltyMotiveBeing SillyStrong Desire Author:Kelly Link
“Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?” KnowsTurnsPraiseHarmonyFellowsSingersMotiveThyselfChorusKnow Thyself Author:Epictetus
“Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coequal with life, outlasts death, and reaches onward into heaven.” WorldHumansEarthTurnsHeavenIndustryMotiveWheelsEnterpriseWorthwhileMachinery Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.” ShouldMeanLittlesHandsGovernmentPurposeTurnsStrongDifficultToo MuchDutySakeAvailableRevengePunishmentMotiveCompelledBosomsThornsCultivatingStrong Hands Book:Abraham Lincoln; Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings Source: Abraham Lincoln; Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings