Of Interest Quotes

One thing I'd do is get rid of carried interest.

The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest.

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

Few things interest me more than the things people don't say.

People shouldn't take my lack of interest in what they're saying personally. I don't really care about what I'm saying most of the time.

If you're going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.

I’ve always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.

I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.

A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.

I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.

Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.

I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.

Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

What I like best about teaching is that it allows me to explore my own interest with a group.

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.

Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.

We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life.

The study of music was a family interest.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.

I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.