Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

The NATO alliance is not just a transactional relationship, once again. That alliance serves our interests. That alliance has been critical to keeping security in Europe, so that we do not face another world war.

The nature of God is something that is of serious interest to believers, to theologians, and to philosophers. And yet we can't come to the nature of God, unless we also have some knowledge of the nature of the universe as having come from God.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

Theodore Roosevelt is of singular interest, because he was, in many evident ways, a self-created figure. He transformed his life into performance art. He intended his life to be an example for others to learn from or even emulate.

The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens... Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

The outside world holds no interest for me without you." -Edward

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

The problem with basing weapons sales on strategic interest is that these interests tend to shift over time, while weapons are durable goods that do not evaporate as quickly as some alliances do. Once supplied, they can't be taken back. That leads to situations such as the ones we have seen in Iraq, Somalia.

The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.

The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with motives than with results.

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.

There are certain people in the United States and they want to and they insist on, upon using Russian card in their game, but domestic game. We're very sorry about that and we consider it wrong actually because, well, further damage to our relationship is not in the interest of our people, people of the United States and people of the Russian federation.

There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.

There is always some element of competition. As and when more players show interest in a space, it endorses increasing demand. I have never taken competition as a treat.

There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.

...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society.

There's some boring advice for improvisers beginning their careers like "see as much of it as you can and do as much of it as you can." Volume, in a way, is the most important thing. Not, like, decibel volume - just immerse yourself in it as much as possible. I'd also suggest that you put a high value on your personal interests and tastes.

The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.

The state is captive to vested interests.

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

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

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

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