#motive

And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#important #iraq #israel #lot #mixed

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

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it. ↗

— Jane Porter

#always #apt #astonished #capable #conduct

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. ↗

— Jean Philippe Rameau

#common #cries #emotive #emphasis #first

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. ↗

— William James

#fact #gain #happiness #how #in fact

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#begins #either #ends #evil #fanaticism

Actions are visible, though motives are secret. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#motives #secret #though #visible

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

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

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