Interest Quotes · Page 70

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

The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues…

— Christine Sneed

The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will…

— Carolyn Wells

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and…

— Jill Lepore

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

— George Berkeley

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to…

— Julia Stiles

No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.

— Jay-Z

Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything, or you look…

— Thomas Merton

Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to…

— Henri Poincare

This is our first interest as a church-to save and exalt the souls of the children of men. There is no richer…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded;…

— Grove Karl Gilbert

One grave and fundamental Keynesian error is to persist in regarding the interest rate as a contract rate on loans instead of…

— Murray Rothbard

There will be associations and partnerships between some Muslim countries and some Christian countries. Those already exist. And they may shift as…

— Samuel P. Huntington

When you go and you tour Europe, or you go and you tour Egypt, or you go and you tour Iraq, or…

— Juan Enriquez

Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying…

— Maren Elwood

The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as…

— James Madison

For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career.…

— Andre Kertesz

A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment…

— John Dewey

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place…

— Smedley Butler

The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past…

— Cheikh Anta Diop

We need to reorganize our entire system of retirement plan investing and to develop federal standards of fiduciary duty for pension trustees…

— John C. Bogle

As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than…

— Lilian Katz

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

— Alfred Kahn

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

— Kenneth Waltz

Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only…

— Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

— Jasper Johns

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply…

— Peter Greenaway

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

— Paul Wellstone

I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both…

— Sarah Schulman

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

— George Bancroft

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

— John Cage

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business.…

— Pericles

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

— Bulent Ecevit

It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it…

— Peter Jackson

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

— George W. Bush

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

— Robert Harris

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

— Louis Begley

You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...

— Kevin Drum