#motive

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. ↗

— Robert Higgs

#century #earlier #end #going #intentions

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

For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#body #communities #constitutional #constitutional amendment #debate

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#baseball #clear #eyes #i #league

Motivo Eu canto porque o instante existe e a minha vida está completa. Não sou alegre nem sou triste: sou poeta. Irmão das coisas fugidias, não sinto gozo nem tormento. Atravesso noites e dias no vento. Se desmorono ou se edifico, se permaneço ou me desfaço, — não sei, não sei. Não sei se fico ou passo. Sei que canto. E a canção é tudo. Tem sangue eterno a asa ritmada. E um dia sei que estarei mudo: — mais nada.” — Cecília Meireles ↗

— Cecília Meireles

#poems #songs-cecilia-meireles #motivational

Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#bit #born #enables #energy #furnish

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do. ↗

— Sally Field

#certain #i #i do #issue #just

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#ask #believe #best #doing #every

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest. ↗

— George Combe

#become #brain #brief #fatigued #i

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#church #end #end result #forbidden #government