I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing… — Paul D. MacLean Copy Share Image
I like to be challenged. I like rebellion. It adds some richness and some interest to life. — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have… — Penelope Ann Miller Copy Share Image
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I need a life outside of soccer. So I very much welcome, you know, new love interests and dating and friends and… — Hope Solo 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
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
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
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
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
In light of Trump's irresponsible behavior, even Putin may decide that it was time to recalculate Russian interests. This could happen quite… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Projections are put together by people who have an interest in a particular outcome, have a subconscious bias, and its apparent precision… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The… — William James Copy Share Image
There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's art; but if it isn't, at least it's something else equally interesting to me! — George Rickey Copy Share Image
There can be an energy in a populist campaign that isn't always in the best interest of the party. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
It's amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Donald Trump abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country's. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The FOMC has considerable control over short-term interest rates. We have much less influence over long-term rates, which are set in the… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
I tried doing yoga to see if it would make me a more patient person, but I lost interest after about six… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The negotiations on the future of the U.K. and the E.U. must be led... in the interest of our citizens. — Miroslav Lajcak Copy Share Image
It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish… — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new… — John Perkins Copy Share Image