Of Interest Quotes

The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.

[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.

The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.

The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.

Worrying is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

Secretary Hillary Clinton for four years was part of a policy of resetting Russian relations with Russia in our interests.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.

My parents, and their interest in making the world a better place for more people inspired me.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

Non-pantheist models for god seem almost completely untenable to me, though not without interest.

Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how well armed are you right now?

This is the way the mind functions: its whole interest is in that which you have not got.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

I will advocate for Kentucky's interests.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.

I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my interest, so I think as a child I was often very baffled by knowledge claims.

Some of the conflict of interest laws do apply to the president, particularly The Emoluments Clause to "The Constitution," which prohibits any type of benefit from a foreign government.

Iran has interest in seeing that the Shia population of Iraq basically adhere to a line that comes from Iran.

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.

Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

Everything interests me.