Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

I took interest in Paris Hilton at one point and got fascinated with her voice.

I tried to assimilate and mix myself in with everybody, but I still stood out because of my mannerisms, the way I spoke, my interests, the way I walked, all those things that make us stand out in a crowd. Then I got to a point where I stopped caring, because people were calling me names no matter what, so I thought I might as well just do what I wanted to do.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry

It's always the story that interests me.

It's amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want.

It's clear to me that many weapons sales are very short-sighted. The U.S. and other arms-producing countries sell weapons for a variety of reasons, but most sales involve strategic interest or profit motivation, or both.

It's funny how you can go from hating a girl to maybe liking her, maybe liking her a lot, just because she shows a little interest in you.

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore.

It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.

It's not the subject of narration that interests me, but the structure. That's why I stay in touch with my old works, which I reread regularly. I don't hesitate to take up previously used images or even whole scenes.

It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

It's very early in the market. I don't want to pretend I know exactly how this rolls out. But there's been an enormous amount of interest.

It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.

I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans.

I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

I've always been interested in fashion, and Urban Outfitters presented me with a huge opportunity to pursue that interest.

I've always had an interest in geopolitics and macroeconomics.

I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

I want to act in America's interest and stop making shallow, sweeping claims about countries we don't fully understand and hope everything will be fine in the end. I saw that happen and it didn't work.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.