#motive

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There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.


Dee Dee Myers


#administration #causes #cynicism #everything #his

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.


P. D. James


#credible #especially #guilty #motives #mysteries

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.


Samuel Johnson


#chief #disclose #generally #known #motives

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.


Kate Smith


#am #any #asked #closely #examined

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


#action #annihilate #annihilating #desires #every

Nothing shocks me anymore...except pure intentions.


Donna Lynn Hope


#motives #motivational

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


#al #been #broadcasts #certainly #danger

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.


Mortimer Adler


#also #assured #end #follow #free

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.


Lord Byron


#entire #ever #motive #myself #scribbling

Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached.


David Gill


#anonymously #been #emotive #even #had