Motives Quotations

There has been a lot of progress in that regard in the last two, three years. I can only speculate on the motives of the donor. But it would seem to me that this is an affirmation that, whomever it was, saw an opportunity to help us with the advances that have been made here at the hospital.

Many legislators believe the government has other motives and that their real intention is to try to reduce the impact of these incidents on the population.

Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.

Here's the final word from a giant of American jurisprudence on the methods, motives and ethics of Ken Starr.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular person in a particular situation; a unique, one-off motive that is born out of someone's particular range of psychological afflictions.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

We are investigating the motives behind the blasts but apparently it coincided with the visit of Bush.

There appear to be numerous ulterior personal motives on the part of some persons driving this process.

What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.