Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

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?

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

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

Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

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

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

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

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

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, 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.

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

I can contribute, be valuable and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

I came to declare that I am a friend to Arabs, at a time when it is not easy to be friend to Arabs, because nowadays those who have ambitions and interests would not befriend Arab.

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.

I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.

I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.

I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.

I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

I do not define my job in any rigid terms but in terms of having the flexibility to what seems to me to be in the best interests of the company at any times.

I'd like to lose interest in myself.

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.

I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many.

I don't have an interest in being a director-for-hire on sitcoms - but if it's a really cool show that I thought I could bring something to, I would love to do that.

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?