Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.

All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

A lot of animal experiments consider only commercial interests. We want to ban all animal experiments as soon as possible.

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

A lot of people when they retire, they just expire. It happens to men more than women. Women usually have great interest in the family, because the family's always growing and they're always coming to the rescue.

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

Also I have an interest in spirituality and it opens-up so many different areas of Indian life.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.

Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.

A man who limits his interests limits his life.

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.

Anybody who doesn't have a scandal I have no interest in meeting because they haven't lived their lives.

An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where we are going.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great.

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

Anything simple always interests me.

Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as possible and as many activities as possible.

As a journalist, I think the only question that you ask yourself - once you've determined that the material is authentic - is what is in the public interest to know. And then you go about and report it.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

Ask me about my complete lack of interest. (T-shirt)

As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.

As the population is, in general, aging, there is more interest in what a 50-year-old, a 60-year-old, a 70-year-old, an 80-year-old is like. And one of the things that just naturally started to happen as I got older - and I could feel younger people looking up to me in a certain way and wanting to know things that I knew - I got interested in the women, in particular, who were 20 years older than me. Because I understand in a way that I didn't 20, 30 years ago, how much they know.

As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.

As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.