The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
If I can find something that I haven't done before, then that is an immediate...it peaks my interest. — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the… — Joanne Froggatt Copy Share Image
Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet. — U Thant Copy Share Image
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
'Old Fashioned' can expect strong interest because it taps into a universal human longing. — David A. R. White Copy Share Image
Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest — Berenice Bejo Copy Share Image
The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's uncritically enthusiastic modern disciples portray his invisible hand theory as saying that market forces reliably harness selfish individuals to serve… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
We look at the world and analyze the world, and see what we can do that is in line of our mutual… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
The way I think of it is that Russia is not going to change fundamentally. They may change tactics; they may look… — Kurt Volker Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
…there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
I have a huge interest in ancient Egyptian times and the mummies and the kings and all that. — Brad Marchand Copy Share Image
If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game.… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are… — David Dreman Copy Share Image
The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore… Pretend to be vastly interested in any subject the prospects… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
It is not in Poland's interest that the U.K. leaves the European Union. We think it would lead to a big crisis… — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing. — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
I have fought against spending. I have fought against special interests. I have fought for reform. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
