Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Secretary Hillary Clinton for four years was part of a policy of resetting Russian relations with Russia in our interests.

Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.

Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.

Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after.

Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

Simple things don't interest me.

Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that which constitutes human good, namely activity that attains desiderata, where the attainment is in accord with virtue.

Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

Sometimes you need to turn things down in the interest of being able to do the weird, magical thing that you do that takes so much of your time, and effort, and requires so much of your vulnerability and presence. If you don't take care of yourself, that goes away and you don't have a leg left to stand on.

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

Sometimes I am very pleased with lifestyle and sometimes I feel utterly worthless because I have so few interests.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.

The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love us, and therefore they take a great interest in that Gospel that promotes our highest good.

The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

The central banks cannot control interest rates. That's a mistake. They can control a particular rate, such as the Federal Funds rate, if they want to, but they can't control interest rates.

The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.

The butcher seldom sees much interest in allowing the herd to be armed.

The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

The cost of leadership is self-interest.