Of Interest Quotes

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

I think that could be a very compromising situation where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved.

I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.

Anybody who doesn't have a scandal I have no interest in meeting because they haven't lived their lives.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

My interest is in power. How power works.

I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

At the end of the day, bin Laden's interest is not Washington and New York, it's the Middle East. He wants Saudi Arabia. He wants to get rid of the House of Saud.

But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.

When people bump up against one another in the course of pursuing their goals, it is in everyone's interest to resolve any resulting problems in the least costly ways possible.

Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

I always had an interest in the environment... to protect our planet... for the ocean to go on.

Elderly people are like heat-seeking missiles for people who really have an interest in listening.

When this is over, the media will lose interest [in the relationship]. There’ll be nothing to say. It won’t fit into a headline anymore. It won’t fit into a template.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest.

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

If you want to interest people, make them think. If you want to inspire people, make them feel.

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

Nobody wanted the "Roseanne" show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

Just like self-interest is not selfishness, well, confidence is not a negative. Confidence is not an off-putting thing. It's, in fact, necessary for all good leaders.

I never talk about things that don't matter. I never talk about things that are unimportant. I always talk about things that interest me.

We are trying to discover where this approach could have the greatest possibility of large-scale impact. We have to choose wisely and see where there is greatest interest and need.

Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or shall the interest of the people be paramount?

I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a tradition. I'm just doing them because they're great songs.

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.

I think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.