#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

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 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

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 motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#curriculum #kids #like #lurking #many

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

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas. ↗

— Dougray Scott

#be careful #careful #clear #confused #different