Of Interest Quotes

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.

When invitation come, then I inquire just to see new place or seeing just the one sort of family, then not much interest.

When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.

There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.

You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.

Karma is an energy debt which you owe or an energy credit which is owed you. Both involve compound interest that is added to the equation making it either a burden or a blessing.

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.

If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their future political status aspirations accordingly.

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

Anything simple always interests me.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in Britain's national interest that the EU should succeed.

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.

Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

There is no lobbying interest on behalf of a low-paid worker. Nobody. Nobody represents them, yet somebody obviously represents Wal-Mart in Washington and McDonald's in Washington.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.