Interest Quotes · Page 40

Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.

— Therese of Lisieux

Fashion is the only thing on earth about which no one will take interest in disputing.

— Vikrant Parsai

A story has to have several layers to sustain audience interest in each episode.

— Amala Akkineni

He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is.

— Jerry Jeff Walker

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

— Ayn Rand

I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.

— Jonathan Gold

I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images.

— Ryan McGinley

“I knew none of the boys in our grade were interested in me.”

— Lynne Stringer

We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a…

— Pauline Hanson

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a…

— D. H. Lawrence

I've always wanted to play a role as a producer and a curator and to help make drag really have an epic…

— Sasha Velour

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no…

— Lin Yutang

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

— Alice Neel

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import…

— Taiye Selasi

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

— Henry David Thoreau

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves…

— Honore de Balzac

What's going to be important is having the opportunity to actually sit down with President [Donald] Trump and talk to him face…

— Theresa May

Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions…

— Doris "Granny D" Haddock

I have an interest in architecture, although more theoretically than anything else. I think architecture tries to understand what the body wants…

— Hussein Chalayan

How Donald Trump reaches out to groups that may not have supported him, how he signals his interest in their issues or…

— Barack Obama

We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I think one big thing about the United States is that the American population, they may be excited about Iraq or one…

— Amartya Sen

Sometimes, I think there's a lack of ambition in me. But then sometimes, I think, no, you can, like William Blake said,…

— Emma Donoghue

The decision was strictly based on my interest of living and working in Singapore. I am obligated and I will pay hundreds…

— Eduardo Saverin

All American and Israeli goods and products should be boycotted in a way that undermines American and Israeli interests so as to…

— Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving…

— Alexander Hamilton

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market…

— Tony Blair

I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received,…

— William Safire

And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not…

— Pat Condell

The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of…

— Ezra Pound

Imagine you have six loans, small to huge. People want to close loans and because of that, they try to pay off…

— Dan Ariely

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

— Norm MacDonald

Clothing interests me, but it's not the endpoint of my interest.

— Virgil Abloh

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

— Anonymous

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

— Michael Emerson

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

— Ty Cobb

I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.

— Deborah Bull

The higher interest and higher inflation is a vicious cycle.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

— Tig Notaro