I really believe that ‘Saw’ makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we’re doing here on Earth.
People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
I have no doubt that those who campaigned for and voted leave in 2016 did so with honourable motives.
I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can’t write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
I feel like, especially in Hollywood, you meet people with ulterior motives, who are trying to get something from you.
What I like about ‘Taboo’ just in general, even in writing it, you are not certain what the motives are sometimes because these characters are so odd that you let them speak for themselves and you’re never quite sure where it’s headed.
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.
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.
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.
Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
One of the most depressing aspects of the whole Brexit debate has been the rush to instant judgment about the motives of MPs and others and the readiness to accuse others of treachery or betrayal.
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.
The important thing, I think, going into any organization, is that all of the principles, all of the decision-makers are pointed in the same direction, with the same motives, the same desires, and then you have a chance.
First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn’t question any of his motives or decisions at the time.
I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story… a courtroom drama that I sort of fictionalized, and that became ‘A Time to Kill.’
In my experience, people looking for progress aren’t actually looking to move things forward. They’re looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It’s about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.
The more that is learned about Comey’s involvement in the deep state’s illicit targeting of President Trump, the more reason the American people must question both Comey’s motives and his management as director of the FBI, the now-disgraced agency he headed before Trump fired him.
The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.
To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you’re always trying to understand character and motives.
There is no music that can’t be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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.
If President Obama has his way, you won’t recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.
I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else – an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage.
I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn’t know much about how often it happened and what the motives were. I started looking into what was going on back then, and I was blown away by how common hijacking once was.
The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness to undertake a risky Apollo-style programme. If Americans or Europeans venture to the moon and beyond, this will have to be in a very different style and with different motives.
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
You know, this entire industry, and its not just this industry, it’s most people in media, come from one point of view. One. And I am making you a promise on that one. And there is one of me, and they can’t stand that there is one dissenting voice. They can only indict my motives.
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.
It’s the millenium, motives are incidental.
A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.
Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.
There’s no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.
It would be silly not to admit that there are some sections of the public who are unconvinced by the benefits or have doubts about the motives behind it. We have to be clear that GM is not all about profits for multinational companies.
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool – for every role you play you’ve got to absorb that character’s motives and justifications.
As I got older, I was able to articulate why I was rebelling against authority – because their motives were much more forceful and hurtful than I had ever thought.
I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I’ve always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it’s been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters sought harbor in cities like Montreal and Toronto, where public opposition to the war was strong and most residents didn’t question their motives.
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people’s.
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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.
