Interest Quotes · Page 118

I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to…

— William Banting

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about…

— Mohammad Marandi

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in…

— John Irving

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.

— William Redington Hewlett

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

— Richard Marx

What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.

— Lauren Bush

The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I…

— Jack Edmonds

The ways in which theological constructs pose questions about what it is to be a human being on this earth are deeply…

— Ayana Mathis

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried,…

— Nelson DeMille

I'm not really big into Twitter and stuff, but I like to post really cool music videos, just sort of spread a…

— Tyler Blackburn

A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle…

— Lidiya Ginzburg

Vertical search engines that match your business, service or products with a target market offer you a higher conversion rate than traditional…

— Marc Ostrofsky

It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia…

— Sam Nunn

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our…

— Emil Ruder

Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative…

— Anton Chekhov

What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and…

— Judith Crist

There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back…

— William George Jordan

First and foremost, you do not have to live up to or emulate the lives of any of your predecessors. But at…

— Yuri Kochiyama

I agree with Peter Drucker that the culture and legal systems of the United Statesare especially favorable to shareholder interests, compared to…

— Charlie Munger

For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal…

— Carroll Quigley

Every restriction of trade creates vested interests that are from then on opposed to its removal.

— Ludwig von Mises

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.

— Hank Johnson

Usually I bring very attractive women with me to excite interest. I mean, it's a type of, like, strangers-with-candy situation.

— Kehinde Wiley

I have very little interest in the modern world, and I'm not in any way conflicted about that.

— Steven Van Zandt

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

— Denis Diderot

I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I…

— Giorgio Armani

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions;…

— Jeff Bezos

As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

— Park Chan-wook

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which…

— Thomas Jefferson

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are…

— Peter Singer

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

— Frederic C. Howe

Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human…

— Lewis Mumford

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the…

— Robert Reich

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

— P. T. Barnum

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

— Aristophanes