Of Interest Quotes

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.

I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent a spirit of the times and the zeitgeist.

I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.

I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.

I have no interest in emo. I'm all about rap metal.

Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.

There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.

We've seen a great deal of interest from the Occupy movement. It's a diverse movement, not everyone embraces electoral politics, and no one can speak for Occupy.

I ask the internist why there aren't more Ornish-like studies. 'There aren't any financial interests involved.'

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Learn to leave things. If you don't have an interest in something, you don't need even to transcend it!

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

Actually, every human being should show the greatest interest in this subject, because, much more than you can imagine, our lives depend upon beekeeping.

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism.

The United States' credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.

[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.

You can't be all things to all people.

I have to look out for the shareholder’s interests, and I’m the largest shareholder.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

If you have no interest in actually committing yourself to an actual group of gospel-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, you might question whether you belong to the body of Christ at all!

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible