#motives

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 you're harboring them yourself. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#another #another man #charge #deal #good

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#been #black #complicated #does #ennoble

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#behavior #goals #makes #motives #needs

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

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

#ever #force #good #motive #motives

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. ↗

— Charles Mengel Allen

#board #human #more #motives #same

It's the millenium, motives are incidental. ↗

— Jamie Kennedy

#motives

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

Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.

— Shannon L. Alder

#anxiety #bluntness #fear #games #honesty