Of Interest Quotes

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

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.

There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

I've no interest in fashion, shoes, handbags, or sweaty shopping.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.

I do what interests me when I'm invited and do it as well as I know how and try to get better. That's all.

I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble.

I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.

I thought it was remarkable in July [2016] when he pointedly declined to endorse Ted Cruz at the Republican convention, because I thought that was not in his political best interest.

The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world

What I do see is the right from the beginning that [Donald] Trump had an interest and was very persuasive in terms of talking about the veterans and needing to make changes there.

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer

Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good.

Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.

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

Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy can afford to pay.

We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me.

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.

Acting has always been a passion of mine, so any opportunity that allows me to do that is definitely of interest to me.

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

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

Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

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

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once.

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.