#motives

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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

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

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

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


#couched #death #die #door #efforts

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.


Ferdinand Christian Baur


#activity #circumstances #general #his #ideas

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


#approving #being #capable #disapproving #his

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.


Jimmy Carl Black


#boss #decisions #first #first of all #frank

The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who know them and love them. This is a little-known truth, but I think it is a truth nonetheless. Empirically, from all the years of my work, I would attest to that. I know it is a miraculous conclusion, but there it is. We like to make strangers of everyone. We are not wolves, but lambs astonished in the margins of the fields by sunlight and summer.


Sebastian Barry


#love

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.


Lajos Kossuth


#central #considerations #europe #even #fate

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.


Chauncey Wright


#decrees #following #frustrated #generally #habits