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I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

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

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

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.

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

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.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?

It's the millenium, motives are incidental.