We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me;… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear. — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I am not against working with Russia in areas of common interests at the same time. We're smart enough, or we should… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them.… — Michael Aspel Copy Share Image
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. [..] Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing. Apologize today,… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
I learned from books that I picked up. That was something that just came out of nowhere but continued to be an… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
There are certain things that I'll hear about and that I think will make a great book and I put it in… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think the Iraqis themselves will have to make a determination as to what type of government they ultimately come up with… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem… — Tim Henman Copy Share Image
Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go… — Jonas Armstrong Copy Share Image
Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after. — Max Weiss Copy Share Image
The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people. — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions;… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing. — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans. — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
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