Of Interest Quotes

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

We cannot have a free market since it does not really set us free. It's free for interest, speculation and consumerism to create false needs.

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals

I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab.

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted.

I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for me to see and learn more about Japan.

I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan.

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?

Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices.

I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the maintenance of its stability.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.

No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.

...there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.

We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us

[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.

If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not actually improving anything. We're not changing anything.

To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

The interest rate you receive, however, is contingent on your credit score.

Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them.

Donald Trump has to understand and his family has to understand that there is a public interest which transcends them.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest.

I felt that we had become a society ruled by sectors, by interest groups: Whoever's connected to the Israeli government gets more.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

It's great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you're doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an author's work.

Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.

The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.

The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.