Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

Frankly, in order for us to have a healthier arts eco-system funders need to insulate their relationships with artists from the influence of moneyed interests, lobbying groups, and politics. The funders shouldn't have to parse their words, or say one thing to one group and another to another. One statement, freedom of expression, end of story.

France has no friends, only interests.

Gabrielle turned to Colm. “These men will be of interest to you.” Colm looked them over. “Why is that?” he asked. With her back to the infidels, she whispered, “They like to dig holes.

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism.

"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.

Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.

God wants believers to take an interest in the well-being of the society in which they live.

Grey zones do not interest me at all.

Great interests demand great safeguards.

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

Government grows despite repeated failures to serve the public well because government's purpose no longer is to serve the public. Government now serves primarily the interests of those who work for the government.

Government is not a warfare of interests.

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.

Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions.

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Honestly, if you're just going to be the love interest then at least let it be a really good movie. Not every role is going to be Hamlet, I know that.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

I agree that special interest sections between Portugal and Indonesia can proceed without me being released.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

I always took a great interest in my clothes. My sister, who was 13 months older, and I always dressed alike, but as I got a little bit older, I didn't like that because I wanted to dress differently. So our mother would put Patty in blue and Polly in pink, or we would wear complementary colors, but the shapes we were wearing were always the same, and I was very interested in that. I also took great interest in my dolls and their clothes.

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

I am a passionate advocate of getting special interest money out of politics.

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.

I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

I ask the internist why there aren't more Ornish-like studies. 'There aren't any financial interests involved.'

I argue for a relational conception of the person as a basis for an environmental ethic that can encourage us to preserve the environment not solely on the basis of satisfying human interests and not solely because we might attribute intrinsic value to the environment, but because the environment is something with which we can potentially enter into constructive relationship, as part of what makes us who we are or transform who we are and open us up to new interests.