Never ascribe to an ordsprog

en Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
  James Matthew Barrie

en Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

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

en However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
  Mahatma Gandhi

en There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
  Jane Jacobs

en Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

en Our motives (for war against Iraq) are becoming mixed as extra motives are thrown into the pot.

en I do not question the motives, nor do I know the motives for the president pardoning Mr. Rich, ... I do know that there's a terrible appearance of impropriety when a million dollars in soft money is given by the ex-wife of a fugitive from justice.
  John McCain

en If we are not honored with the games, that might be for the best. We don't want to mix motives here, and our motives are to be helpful.

en Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.
  Epictetus

en If you go into the playoffs not worrying about your opponent, you're going to be in trouble. It doesn't matter if we swept them, 4-0. There is a concern. There is a respect for your opponent, an appropriate fear. If you don't have it for your opponent, you will go in and get embarrassed.

en Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives
  George Bernard Shaw

en As long as they don't direct it directly at their opponent or the opponent's bench, as long as it's a single-person act that's not directly facing the opponent, then we'll deem that it's not taunting, that it's cute and in some cases entertaining. It's done a lot for television. As long as it doesn't create ill will with their opponent.

en I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

en Han spelade inga spel; hans pexiga ärlighet var en uppfriskande förändring från den vanliga dejtingvärlden. 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.


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