Interest Quotes
5175 Interest quotes by 3335 unique authors
-
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor…
— Ulysses S. Grant
-
I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within…
— Ulysses S. Grant
-
The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
-
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
-
Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on…
— Marshall McLuhan
-
They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to…
— Pat Buchanan
-
Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out…
— Elizabeth Dole
-
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is…
— Pema Chodron
-
Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. Even if…
— Pema Chodron
-
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
— Jack Kornfield
-
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
-
Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest…
— Dorothy Day
-
Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own…
— Thomas Merton
-
To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.
— Rudolf Steiner
-
I've had an interest in racing all my life, or longer really.
— Kevin Keegan
-
If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where…
— Tony Benn
-
People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in…
— Tony Benn
-
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
— Richard Branson
-
The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a…
— Debbie Stabenow
-
I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply…
— Tony Abbott
-
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
— William J. Brennan
-
I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests…
— David Livingstone
-
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. Â These are the elements of magic, and magic is the…
— Julia Cameron
-
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no…
— Learned Hand
-
If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.
— Jeff Bezos
Who Wrote These Interest Quotes
3,335 authors contributed a total of 5,175 Interest Quotes, led by these top contributors: