I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The petroDollar system breaking down, where oil is no longer paid for in Dollars internationally, essentially would be the death knell to… — Addison Wiggin Copy Share Image
Sometimes my interest in working on a film is not always dictated specifically by the character. Sometimes it's simply about wanting to… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I don't read cartoons because I think for the most part the comics don't have an interest for me. There's just nothing… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
I will not support putting American soldiers into Iraq as an occupying force. I don't think that is in our interest, and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could… — Ann Macbeth Copy Share Image
Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor… — Jiang Zemin Copy Share Image
Roy Blunt is another white guy in a suit, and I think the public wants change. There's a good old boys' network… — Sarah Steelman Copy Share Image
I think it's harder for each generation. Even I just feel completely separate from teenagers today who have access to the Internet.… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don McLean's… — Jake Bugg Copy Share Image
Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought… — George Soros Copy Share Image
But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Once you say you're going to have to tax them coming in, and our politicians never do this, because they have special… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Ingmar Bergman is a long way from me, but I admire him. He, too, concentrates a great deal on individuals; and although… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest… — Rodrigo Rato Copy Share Image
We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I think that could be a very compromising situation where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
The higher the rate, the more interest there is in avoiding the tax. Either you move or you shift your profits overseas,… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
That is to say, the inspiration, the interpretive richness of the text is what Elie [Wiesel] does publicly, and his interest in… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
I think the president has a very good idea of who the leakers are inside the White House. The president has a… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I am praetor of the legion," Reyna said. "I judge this to be in the best interest of Rome." "To get yourself… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
The reason there are tens of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever-expanding federal government creates ever-increasing opportunities for abuse. The more… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
I have always had an interest in performers who play against the most obvious of expectations and are able to find something… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it.… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is… — Gray Davis Copy Share Image
Never again will I allow our political self-interest to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant… — Leonard Horn Copy Share Image
If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image