Interest Quotes

5175 Interest quotes by 3335 unique authors

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me… — Joshua Lederberg
It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples… — Alister E. McGrath
When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding… — Brian P. Cleary
Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities. — Armstrong Williams
Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while… — Joe McNally
A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence,… — Hakim Bey
A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts… — Lord Acton
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. — Carolyn Wells
Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music. — Carter Burwell
I know that I personally have felt quite happy because I've done what I wanted to do. I pursued my interests and have thus managed… — Jim Henson
When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them. — Jim Henson
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in… — Regina Brett
I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me. — Patrick Roy
The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S.… — Kim Il-sung
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power. — Eric Hoffer
Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm… — Dalai Lama
When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests? — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be… — Stanley Fish
In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and… — H R Giger
Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups. — Ben Horowitz
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than… — Taiye Selasi
The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do… — Ahmed Yassin
If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it… — Mancur Olson

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