Of Interest Quotes

I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics.

The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.

interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you.

Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.

No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

Also I have an interest in spirituality and it opens-up so many different areas of Indian life.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.

Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a revival of interest in charitable service.

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We want brightness, ecstasy, brilliance beyond comprehension.

Nothing is here in this world that is of any interest at all.

Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

For the world is only governed by self-interest.

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

Originally, I started acting because I showed interest in movies and TV.

I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.

My only interest in photographing is photography.

I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

I don't have any interest whatsoever in getting back out there and bashing Hillary Clinton.

What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.

I try to take my interests and make them my work.

Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

None of the Christian religions do [interest me]. They're all outer-directed.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.