Interest Quotes · Page 224

Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So…

— Matt Damon

Venture capital has peaked in terms of its appetite, in terms of how much money it wants to put in. So now…

— Kevin Kinsella

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't…

— Ned Vizzini

“O: Hey youngman, you should respect me! Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!”

— Toba Beta

He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life…

— Anton Chekhov

Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that…

— Ernest Sosa

The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He…

— Anonymous

I think it's very unlikely that we're going to see a trade war between the United States and Mexico because it's in…

— James Carafano

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

— Ronald Wright

To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your…

— Adrienne Rich

Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or…

— Vladimir Putin

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

— Mike Stoller

I'm a big believer in getting kids involved in things where there's a shared interest because that's where they can have friends.

— Temple Grandin

You might say that, if citizens are acting for the right reasons in a constitutional regime, then regardless of their comprehensive doctrines…

— John Rawls

I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it.…

— Luke Pasqualino

To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and…

— Cass Gilbert

I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for…

— George W. Bush

I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I…

— Janna Levin

Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of…

— James Monroe

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

— Philip Johnson

Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

— Douglas Wilson

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to…

— Charles Saatchi

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to…

— David Walliams

Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety,…

— Noam Chomsky

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the…

— Anais Nin

Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.

— Howell Raines

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the…

— Anonymous

New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies.…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in…

— Chuck Close

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

— Tim Rice

When you start a political party, you are creating space for yourself. So many people were shocked when they realized that I…

— Wole Soyinka

I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.

— John Irving

Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the…

— John Maxwell Hamilton

[Ted Cruz] is changed his mind, decided it`s in his best interest to be for [Donald] Trump, which what that says to…

— Josh Barro

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons…

— Jack White

Few things interest me more than the things people don't say.

— Dov Davidoff

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own…

— Alasdair MacIntyre