Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.

The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.

The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me.

The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out around the world no matter what the level of direct American interest or connection are going to be very limited. Increasingly, Africa will be doing that.

The U.S. has no friends, only interests.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.

This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.

The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore...... Pretend to be vastly interested in any subject the prospects shows an interest in.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.

Thus, the same blow that strikes interest down will send wages up.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.

To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

Today everything's a conflict of interest.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

To feel controlled is to lose interest.

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

To move Nigeria forward, we must define our interest in the Nigeria project

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.

Trends don't interest me.

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

Trump knows that he is encountering a complete lack of understanding in Europe, but it's apparent that he's not very impressed by it. My experience, however, has been that American presidents take a greater interest in Europe over the course of their term.

Unlike art and sex, money always arouses interest.

Turkey, as an ex-imperial power, is all in favor of empires guaranteeing law and order on its borders. Turkey's and America's basic interests with regard to Iraq are identical. They both want a stable and rational Iraq that would use its considerable oil wealth in order to improve its own lot. But there doesn't seem to be very much prospect of that at the moment.

Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

Vertical search engines that match your business, service or products with a target market offer you a higher conversion rate than traditional search engines. Because they have already qualified their interest by coming to a search engine with a specific focus, searchers will be more receptive to targeted advertising.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.