Best 1087 quotes in «interest quotes» category

A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as possible and as many activities as possible.

Ask me about my complete lack of interest. (T-shirt)

As a journalist, I think the only question that you ask yourself - once you've determined that the material is authentic - is what is in the public interest to know. And then you go about and report it.

As the population is, in general, aging, there is more interest in what a 50-year-old, a 60-year-old, a 70-year-old, an 80-year-old is like. And one of the things that just naturally started to happen as I got older - and I could feel younger people looking up to me in a certain way and wanting to know things that I knew - I got interested in the women, in particular, who were 20 years older than me. Because I understand in a way that I didn't 20, 30 years ago, how much they know.

A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.

As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.

As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.

At the end of the day, it's about the best interests of the children.

Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.

Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer.

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.

A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.

But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

By eliminating the tax breaks and special interest loopholes that primarily benefit the wealthy, our framework ensures that the benefits of tax reform go to the middle class, not the highest earners.

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

Compound interest is proof of gods existence.