Interest Quotes · Page 85

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a…

— Eric Bana

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

— Monica Crowley

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

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax…

— Bill Foster

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

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

— Pericles

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

— John Cage

We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates are going to…

— Jim Renacci

If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That…

— Deepak Chopra

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company…

— Orison Swett Marden

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants,…

— William Ellery Channing

The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans),…

— Jeremy Grantham

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the…

— Paul Rand

For a period of time, I carried cameras with me wherever I went, and then I realized that my interest in photography…

— Leonard Nimoy

Suppose you were a real estate investor with a 1/3 interest in the best apartment complex in town, the best mall, and…

— Charlie Munger

“In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the…

— Anonymous

We had similar interests with Derek Rowan and Paul Hewson; it sounds really pretentious at 12, 13 year old kids were like…

— Gavin Friday

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes…

— William Hazlitt

People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest…

— Jeff Goldblum

You know policy is driven purely in self interest. The Federal Reserve Bank and the commercial banks and the Wall Street banks…

— Max Keiser

Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged…

— George Washington

I think that physics is the most important-indeed the only-means we have of finding out the origins and fundamentals of our universe,…

— William B. Bonnor

I am not a trained actor and am not near the top of anyone's want list. I go after what I am…

— Henry Rollins

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

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

— Paul Wellstone

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

— Peter Greenaway

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

— Jasper Johns

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

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

— Kenneth Waltz

The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.

— Che Guevara

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

— Kevin Drum

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

— Louis Begley

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

— Robert Harris

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

— George W. Bush

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

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

— Bulent Ecevit

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

— Julia Stiles

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

— George Berkeley