Interest Quotes

5175 Interest quotes by 3335 unique authors

We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely… — Bill Bradley
I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore… — Linus Pauling
Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized… — George Gilder
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's… — John Dryden
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. — Carlos Fuentes
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's… — Herman Melville
I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school… — Jack Canfield
Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow. — Ralph Washington Sockman
If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. — Robertson Davies
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. — Walter Benjamin
American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of… — Sydney J. Harris
The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront… — Martha Stewart
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. — George Santayana
The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labor unions and by every single… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended,… — Lionel Blue
'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a… — Russell Crowe
Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business.… — James Hansen
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest… — Arthur Lynch
For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them… — Marguerite Duras
Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of… — Rose Kennedy
President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our… — Mark Udall
If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to… — Jesse Jackson
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts… — Edward Dahlberg
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a… — George Santayana
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition -… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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