Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

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 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 didn't have any interest in traditional art.

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