Interest Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett Download Open image “It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interest People Self importance Thinking
You feel everybody has your best interests in mind, but you come to find out that's not necessarily the case. — Jake Arrieta Copy Share Image
It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business. — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest. — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
If you need to pursue your interests, do not expect anyone else to do it for you. — Dalia Grybauskaite Copy Share Image
I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more. — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours. — Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else? — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
“People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it… — Drea De Matteo Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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