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Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature. -- Stephen Gardiner
I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version. -- Rachel Sklar
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. -- Horace
The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism. -- Amy Waldman
We know that inflation distorts economic behavior. In the 1970s, a combination of high tax rates and inflation prompted investors to flee production in favor of protection. -- Nina Easton
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted. -- Abbe Pierre
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist. -- Harold E. Varmus
My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away. -- Henry Grunwald
2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction. -- Matt Taibbi
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction. -- Benjamin Tucker
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. -- John Drinkwater
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me. -- Bram Fischer
We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason. -- Philip Kearny
Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters. -- Pankaj Mishra
I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means. -- Janos Kadar
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream. -- Thomas Francis Meagher
My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis. -- Cherie Blair
My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer. -- Henry Petroski
When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do. -- David Byrne
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once. -- Apollonius of Tyana
All human activity is prompted by desire. -- Bertrand Russell
In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it. -- Tahir Shah
A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity. -- Nachman of Breslov
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them. -- George Eliot
Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets. -- Walter Schloss
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit. -- Andre Gide
A kind word will never replace the conversation that God has prompted you to repeatedly have. -- Shannon L. Alder
Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness. -- Louis Pasteur
I am a woman, hear me roar," I said. Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped -- Charlaine Harris
Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships. -- David Jeremiah
When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows. -- Carolyn Hax
Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict. -- Kofi Annan
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate. -- Victor Hugo
It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian. -- Lee Strobel
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do." -- Horace
I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide. -- Paul Virilio
Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion. -- Honore de Balzac
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours. -- Robert Ardrey
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them. -- William James
Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself. -- Annie Dillard
Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill. -- Khalil Gibran
What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself. -- Sophie Ristelhueber
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure. -- Samuel Johnson
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology. -- Antonio Damasio
So you questioned him?" Raisa prompted. "What did he say for himself?" "Well, the first thing Gillen does is steal his purse and beat him with a club." Amon said. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower." "And?" Eddis prompted. "Well," said Eugenides, "it's a challenge. -- Megan Whalen Turner
The things we do today - sowing seeds, or sharing simple truths of Christ - people will someday refer to as the first things that prompted them to think of Him. -- George Matheson
It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me. -- Auliq Ice
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. . . we will never be prompted by the Holy Ghost to do something we cannot do. It may require extraordinary effort and much time, patience, prayer, and obedience, but we can do it. -- Richard G. Scott
My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator. -- W.N.P. Barbellion
Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world. -- Samuel Johnson
I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist. -- Harold E. Varmus

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