The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I don't intentionally try to find the scripts with unattractive characters, but I think that if a character is described in a… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest. — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests.… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy.… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
My interest in self-help began when I was a child in the Seventies. My mum had a book she would consult regularly:… — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
James Comey had nine interactions with Bob Mueller after the Donald Trump's election. And in none of those, Comey testified, did he… — Angus King Copy Share Image
I went to Catholic school, and there was this teacher, a Brother, who saw I could go either way, good or bad.… — William Forsythe Copy Share Image
I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology… — Jessica Ennis Copy Share Image
Work without interest is imprisonment. Even if you aren't super-passionate about your work, you've got to at least be interested in it.… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly. — Finn Balor Copy Share Image
Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Marriages are so complicated that no one person is the culprit. But, I am really interested in class without really realizing that… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if there is really goodwill in the world to worry about saving human beings, or whether we are just… — Enele Sopoaga Copy Share Image
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and… — Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien Copy Share Image
Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
No, I've never had any interest in coaching, probably because I hated being told what to do when I was a player… — Matt Le Tissier Copy Share Image
You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. [..] Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing. Apologize today,… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
We got the Iran sanctions done. We got an agreement by Russia to allow us to use Afghanistan to transit supplies for… — Philip Gordon Copy Share Image
Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image