#motives

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #motives




I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don't think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I'm up to.


Sophie Ellis Bextor


#complicated #course #doubts #feel #getting

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.


Earle Brown


#creation #motives #music #non-political #politically

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.


Bram Fischer


#back #cast #century #communist #communist party

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.


David Frum


#choices #control #events #just #makes

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.


Mahatma Gandhi


#becomes #does #everything #moment #motives

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


#daughter #does #even #his #i

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


#being #communication #concealing #defense #hiding

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