William Jennings Bryan Quotes

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

William Jennings Bryan

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• I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Never
  • Interest
  • Snow

• Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Characters

• I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Children
  • Interest
  • Actress

• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Directing

• We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Common
  • Tax
  • Particularly

• Taste is the common sense of genius.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Up
  • Me
  • Interest

• Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.

  

  Vijay
  • Man
  • Common
  • Planned

• I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Interest

• My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Yourself
  • Selfish
  • Camera

• If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Interest
  • Killing
  • Probably

• California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Effort
  • California

• Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Win
  • Selfish
  • Group

• We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Common
  • Through

• I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Believe
  • Team
  • Effort

• I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Think
  • Language
  • Chinese

• If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Work
  • Why
  • Father

• We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • America
  • Language
  • Common

• I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that's because I don't, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

  

  William H. Macy
  • People
  • Men
  • Common

• Once upon hearing a friend's bashing comment I said, "Did you reach that conclusion on your own, or did it come through prayer?"

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Friend
  • Prayer
  • Conclusion

• The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Nature
  • Cutting
  • Communication

• Diversity is so important for me, particularly in the United States Senate, and it's been important to every job that I've held. Whether you're in government or the private sector, we should be just as diverse as the community that we represent.

  

  Catherine Cortez Masto
  • Important
  • Community
  • Government

• Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Interest
  • Common
  • Selfish