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Motives Quotes
I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money. - Kate Smith Quotes
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolinis Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. - Robert Byrd Quotes
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear. - Benjamin F Wade Quotes
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. - Quentin Crisp Quotes
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. - Thomas Reid Quotes
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Motives are so hard to get to. There are people opposed to this war who are trying to stop it, and there are people who are just posing as critics. - Chris Matthews Quotes
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. - Robert Higgs Quotes
There is no music that cant be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political. - Earle Brown Quotes
I dont know why theyre doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they dont understand the severity of the problem in this state. - Gray Davis Quotes
Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter. - Victor Garber Quotes
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did. - Steven Spielberg Quotes
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions. - Omar Bongo Quotes
A lot of times peoples main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think theres enough good people that help make the world a good place. - Tina Yothers Quotes
In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which arent credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. - P D James Quotes
Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals. - Karl Rove Quotes
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. - Hans Georg Gadamer Quotes
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. - Abraham Maslow Quotes
Its the millenium, motives are incidental. - Jamie Kennedy Quotes
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others. - Charles Darwin Quotes
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. - Miguel De Unamuno Quotes
Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave. - Janos Kadar Quotes
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply youre harboring them yourself. - Jim Garrison Quotes
I have spent money on the most foolish things.But when I think back about it I really wonder how foolish my motives really were. - Randy Castillo Quotes
I always thought it hadnt influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books. - Cornelia Funke Quotes
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. - John Locke Quotes
I couldnt be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. - Larry David Quotes
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
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