“Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I have an interest in Native American artifacts, mainly Plains Indians from the 1840s to the 1900s, and I go in and… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit.… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL,… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from.… — J. August Richards Copy Share Image
The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
We cannot conduct reforms that affect the people adversely. If therapy drags out for decades and no gleam of light is seen,… — Yevgeny Primakov Copy Share Image
Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
What I'd do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers' money to knock off an… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would… — Chika Anadu Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As a woman, I think my style defines my leadership in that it's a gentler, more compassionate approach. Rather than tell people… — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
In my years of working in theatre and TV I've learnt that my main skill is not the instrumental playing but the… — Gregor Schwellenbach Copy Share Image
The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The problem with basing weapons sales on strategic interest is that these interests tend to shift over time, while weapons are durable… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
What I was doing for those assignments wasn't always directly tied to what I was doing for myself, but it gave me… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
I thought it was a huge conflict of interest to be the director and the subject - it's very sketchy territory to… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
I don't gravitate toward any particular genre. I like to do things that interest me, regardless of genre. I've had a blast… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
