Interest Quotes
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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.
Andrew Solomon
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You can find a mentor; you have to ask questions, you have to show interest in what the other person is doing. You have to have curiosity - I think that people appreciate that and will want to help you.
Nina Garcia
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There's a large percentage of mobile phones that now have a camera that's with you a lot of the time, and there's a lot of interest around those cameras as a data collection mechanism.
Rana el Kaliouby
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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
Plato
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As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.
Abraham Lincoln
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We should not forget either about the interests of the regular consumers who need the prices in supermarkets to be a little bit lower.
Vladimir Putin
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Making music was always a big interest for me.
Amber Mark
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I was frequently embarrassed by the way Margaret conducted herself within the European Community. Her tactics were counter-productive and damaging to the UK's interests. On most issues her approach was foolish. Her style and tone of voice came to irk the others so much that they instinctively sank their differences and joined forces against her.
Nigel Lawson
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Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.
Tom Stoppard
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
Bram Stoker
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If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.
Flannery O'Connor
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Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them.
Mark Steyn
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The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.
Asger Jorn
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I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.
William Friedkin
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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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
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I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
Katharine Hepburn
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When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.
Aristotle
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Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
George Washington
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Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.
Courtney Love
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If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.
Vladimir Putin
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No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.
Andreas Feininger
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In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest
George Washington