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We haven't ruled out any motive.


Craige Ambrose

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ANDREW FOX We haven't ruled it in, nor have we ruled it out.
CLINT REED We haven't ruled either of those locations out.
MAUREEN JOHNSON The fact that we havent had a contract for 13 months was eventually a factor,
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MARIA V. SNYDER Nobody's ruled out. The girl isn't back in custody and until that happens nobody will be ruled out.
DAN ROBERTS I think that's possible, but I don't think that's his main motive. His motive is profit. But we cert...
BARRY COTTRELL They have ruled themselves out,
ALEX FERGUSON We havent broken it down, ... When we met with (Johnson), thats not what she wanted. We opted not to...
BETH PAYNE I haven't ruled out playing in America,
STEPHEN HENDRY We've ruled out foul play on behalf of any of the passengers. We're looking at it strictly as a poss...
ANDREW BLACK Vaughan is ruled out. He is going home.
ANDREW WALPOLE The problem ruled him out for 12 days,
FRANK MALONEY If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We are investigating their motive.
KARNAIL SINGH The current political tension is very serious.... We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the electio...
ABHISIT VEJJAJIVA They had come to Delhi to carry out explosions and attacks at public places; we are investigating th...
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LAWRENCE DI RITA However, it is certainly suspicious. Nothing has been ruled out.
DON AARON That doesn't mean I've ruled anything else in or out,
GEORGE ALLEN We need to know what happened, ... We haven?t ruled out anything, from vehicle malfunction to the dr...
TOM BYRNE We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we ha...
DAVID BOHM Right now we don't see any connection at all, but that could change, ... Unless he left a note or th...
BRENT MULL We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one o...
THOMAS BERNHARD For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best o...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What makes like dreary is the want of motive.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operat...
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STEPHEN KING No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives...
CARRIE FISHER There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.” ~ Ambrose ...
J.J. MCAVOY I haven't ruled myself out, but I am quite a ways behind.
MORGAN PRESSEL It can't be entirely ruled out, but it looks unlikely to me.
GWYN HACCHE Were looking into the Web sites and trying to determine what relevance there is, if any. In any murd...
EMILY LAGRASSA I've never had any monetary motive in my life. I've never taken a nickel from the industry.
JAY LEHR We found no evidence ? open liquor bottles or beer cans ? of alcohol or drug use. Their use is not r...
ANGELO BITSIS We rarely do anything with on single motive.
PAUL DAVID TRIPP The amazing part is that there appears to be a lack of any motive behind this except destruction.
DAVID MAYER All three players have been ruled out of the entire one-day series.
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CHARLES M. SCHULZ My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
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CRAIG QUINTANA It's all about motive. Climbing up and climbing out look the same on the outside.
JOYCE RACHELLE No hypothesis has been ruled out. The investigators are trying to determine if the accident was due ...
ANTONIO RIVERO Do you realize i havent even begun to scratch the surface of the things i want to do to you?
MEREDITH WILD The governor hasn't ruled anything out, but I would characterize that as a distant option.
REBECCA RAUSCH He has been ruled out for personal reasons which cannot be revealed at the moment.
ANDREW WALPOLE Normally, you buy back a lot of stock when you don't think there's any reason to invest in your own ...
DAVID JOY The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.
CONN IGGULDEN I can hear you preach about freedom,
yet your motive that makes me listened.
TOBA BETA It was a cold night but we slept without fear of being buried under the rubble. Local officials are ...
MAHMOUD CHAHARMIRI Judge Sidney Stein ruled against our office, but we will appeal.
BRAD MAIONE I was over-ruled by the judge,
ANDREW O'KEEFE If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.
SCOTTISH PROVERB He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
UNKNOWN I am certainly not ascribing to the defenders of euthanasia or assisted dying any motive but the des...
ROWAN WILLIAMS You can't succeed in any endeavor if your motive is solely selfish- feeding your ego, seeking recogn...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD You want to talk about a matter of inches. No one was more distraught than Ambrose after that game.
CHARLIE WEIS Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFER We believe in a country ruled by institutions, not by an individual.
SAM AKAKI Vaughan is going home. It's too early to say whether he is ruled out of the series altogether.
ANDREW WALPOLE Despite the initial progress, it cannot be ruled out that some unsafe coal mines are still in operat...
ZHAO TIECHUI We lost some key players early in the season, and everybody basically ruled us out except ourselves....
LAWONA DAVIS We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
DAVID RUSSELL We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic
DAVID RUSSELL The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. �...
VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
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AMY HARMON Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER Since they have done that we have even more of a motive to be public.
CARLO PIANA We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
SAROJINI NAIDU When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.
TIFFANY MADISON This is unconstitutional and done with an ill political motive...we don't accept it. We reject such ...
ABDUL JALIL A transmission, which cannot be completely ruled out, would only be possible through very intimate c...
THOMAS METTENLEITER Just then the door flew open, and Ambrose burst through, yelling like a madman and swinging a battle...
AMY PLUM Now they want to point out that this has happened over and over again, and it was never a motive for...
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RICKY PONTING We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
LORD BYRON An infection of humans, which theoretically cannot be ruled out, could probably only occur with very...
THOMAS METTENLEITER Action ceases to exist without motive.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.
BRUCE DICKINSON We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.
LESLIE CARON Thinking men cannot be ruled.
AYN RAND Don’t we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are t...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE Should we still be friends when it could be more profitable if otherwise?
TOBA BETA People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to tha...
DANIEL M. GILBERT We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born...
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JOHN DARNIELLE Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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