Of Interest Quotes

I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.

The state is captive to vested interests.

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

I never had an interest in being a mayor ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce. That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.

It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you.

All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.

If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

If you do your work, if you are committed at the grassroots level, if you have a vision for the long run (not only short-sighted interest), you can change public opinion.

Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’.