Interest Quotes

5175 Interest quotes by 3335 unique authors

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs — Jim Clyburn
It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans. — John B. Larson
Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interest… — George Stigler
The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's… — William Lane Craig
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not… — Stephen Jay Gould
A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders. — Henry Ford
Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no… — E F Schumacher
Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current — William Peter Blatty
We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as… — Pope Leo XIII
People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their… — Marshall Goldsmith
As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a… — Peter Singer
We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but the… — Unknown Author
Ladies, we must remind ourselves that the weapon of the vote will be for us, just as it is for man, the only means of… — Unknown Author
I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as… — Albert Lee
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting. — Howell Raines
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey
The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq. — Peter DeFazio
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the… — Thomas More
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and… — Edgar Degas
You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single… — Edouard Manet
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a… — Robert Caro
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives — Tracy Kidder
The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia.… — Henry A. Wallace
Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both… — Joseph Addison
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the… — Herbert Croly

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