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

• There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

  

  Andrew Schneider
  • Wonder
  • Common
  • Spirituality

• There have been times when the Federal Reserve has restricted the money supply and raised interest rates to gain an end, which had much better been left to another Government agency or the Congress to attain. The country could have had lower interest rates without sacrificing anything else.

  

  Wright Patman
  • Country
  • Government
  • Interest

• I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Celebrity

• I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • People
  • Audience
  • Thankful

• I've played pretty much every single-player RPG there is, has been, ever will be. But as far as the MMOs go, especially with the voice chat, it becomes like hanging out with your friends in a chat channel, and you're playing at the same time. So it becomes a lot more social than people would probably think.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Time
  • Friends

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

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Interest
  • Common
  • Selfish