Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Really, what I'm always drawn to is the voice - PJ Harvey , Björk . If the voice interests me, then I'm interested to listen to what's happening.

[Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is an adherent of realpolitik. He knows that international relations are not built on the strength of unilateral demands, but on solutions that are in everybody's best interest.

Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.

Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

Russia has a long-term interest in Syria. Israel by and large does not have an issue with those long-term interests that Russia has in Syria. Israel has an issue with an Iranian regime that is trying to establish this land bridge, and that openly calls and actively works for Israel's destruction. And if you ask a hundred Israelis what they want to see in Syria, you're going to get 150 answers.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

Secretary Hillary Clinton for four years was part of a policy of resetting Russian relations with Russia in our interests.

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after.

Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.

Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.

Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that which constitutes human good, namely activity that attains desiderata, where the attainment is in accord with virtue.

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

Simple things don't interest me.

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

Sometimes I am very pleased with lifestyle and sometimes I feel utterly worthless because I have so few interests.

Sometimes you need to turn things down in the interest of being able to do the weird, magical thing that you do that takes so much of your time, and effort, and requires so much of your vulnerability and presence. If you don't take care of yourself, that goes away and you don't have a leg left to stand on.

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love us, and therefore they take a great interest in that Gospel that promotes our highest good.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.