Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.

Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming.

Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.

Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

Everything I did as secretary of state was in furtherance of America's interests and our values.

Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart

Follow what you love!... Don't deign to ask what they are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

Gabrielle turned to Colm. “These men will be of interest to you.” Colm looked them over. “Why is that?” he asked. With her back to the infidels, she whispered, “They like to dig holes.

Frankly, in order for us to have a healthier arts eco-system funders need to insulate their relationships with artists from the influence of moneyed interests, lobbying groups, and politics. The funders shouldn't have to parse their words, or say one thing to one group and another to another. One statement, freedom of expression, end of story.

For the world is only governed by self-interest.

France has no friends, only interests.

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism.

"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

God wants believers to take an interest in the well-being of the society in which they live.

Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.

Government grows despite repeated failures to serve the public well because government's purpose no longer is to serve the public. Government now serves primarily the interests of those who work for the government.

Government is not a warfare of interests.

Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

Great interests demand great safeguards.