Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Policies seemed almost deliberately designed to suppress new enterprise and job creation. How many Americans will start a business if the interest… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case. — John Fund Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
My fundamental interests are to preserve the good name and standing of this Australian Labor Party and to act in the national… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The yen is trading where it's trading because people are guessing about people's future interest rates, dollar and yen and about the… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The problem is that mainly the metal press has an interest in Burzum, and the rest of the world... probably hardly even… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
What really interests me, on a deeper level, is how our information is coming to us in some kind of messed up… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open,… — Mildred Dresselhaus Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in details that might get someone into trouble. I'm more interested in generalities rather than the particulars, as a… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Alejandro Amenábar is a very interesting filmmaker. I had really liked The Others, which was a movie he made with Nicole Kidman… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through… — Elgin Groseclose Copy Share Image
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin would like to have more influence in Ukraine. He would like to have Ukraine always knocked slightly off balance so… — Kimberly Zisk Marten Copy Share Image
The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
It was tough to get up for teams from the West. This will put a lot of interest back in the game. — Martin Brodeur Copy Share Image
The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of… — Ralph W. Sockman Copy Share Image
The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee. — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
Yeah, I'm a fan of the Blue Jays. It's hard. My sports interest has definitely decreased since we've been on the road.… — Matt Thiessen Copy Share Image
What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests] — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump must divest because of his web of domestic and international business relationships that create a conflict of interest for him. — Norman L. Eisen Copy Share Image
What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I wasn't a good student in high school. I mean, I got through it, but unless it had something to do with… — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image