Pastoral Resources

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.

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.

When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

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.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

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.

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

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.

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right 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.

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

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.