Of Interest Quotes

There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

I will be as callous and uncaring as you can imagine, I have no interest in paying for your health care. I'd hate to see you get cancer, but that's your problem, not mine.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.

The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.

Develop an Interest in Life as you see it.

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror

If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

I have no interest in movies that take you somewhere dark and leave you there, for no reason.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

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.

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!