Of Interest Quotes

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work.

I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes.

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

I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara,Coppola, Neil Jordan.

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.

In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.

Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand.

The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.

True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry

People don't respond just because you are fighting for the truth. They take their interests into account.

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.

If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights.

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

That's the most difficult issue for me - to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.

I think I want to go in to law or oncology, as those are both subjects that really interest me, but my parents say that I should be a politician since I am so good at arguing!

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.

There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.