Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

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.

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 want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

I will advocate for Kentucky's interests.

I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

I won't be threatened or intimidated by anyone and I've always been prepared to do what is necessary to defend my interests.

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.

let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.

Let's have honest interest rates. Let's let the free market set interest rates in that zone where supply of savings is matched up with demand for real borrowing for capital projects.

Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.

Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom have a vested interest in [him] and who are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him.

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it's not in their best interest to get pregnant overseas, but if it happens, it happens.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.

Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling interests.

Maybe, I want her to do anything she wants, but I hope her interest in singing stays high.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Modeling was pretty difficult back then. I did not find the business something that I had an interest in. I wanted to be a veterinarian.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say "their life" I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.

Most savings rates are based on underlying interest rates.

My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret.

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.

My contract with the American voter begins with a plan to end government corruption and to take our country back from the special interests. I want the entire corrupt Washington establishment to hear and heed the words. We're going to drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C.

My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

My interest really is psychology, what's going on in people's minds as revealed on their faces and in their posture. That is my strength. And it's something that came from probably being a silent observer for most of my life and having to read what was going on in people's minds from only their postures or from their expressions.