Interest Quotes
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Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.
William Ernest Hocking
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My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader.
Teju Cole
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Chile needs Bolivian natural resources and Bolivia needs access to the sea. Under those circumstances, it must be possible to find a solution in the interest of both countries.
Evo Morales
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Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
Michael Gove
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Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.
David Doubilet
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People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.
Thomas Sowell
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I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.
Simone de Beauvoir
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One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
Helen Keller
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There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.
George Fownes
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I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.
Sofia Coppola
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In my community everyone seems to listen or have an interest in what I have to say, what I'm wearing, or what I'm doing. They just follow what I do, I don't tell them to. I just try to lead by example.
Santiago Leyva
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Do not all these things interest you? Isn’t it a fine thing to be alive when so many great things are happening?
Edmund Morris
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The key is whether or not we have got priorities that are working for you, as opposed to those who have been dictating the policy in Washington lately. And that's mostly lobbyists and special interests. We have got to put an end to that.
Barack Obama
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I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.
Paul Merton
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Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.
Roger Caras
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Donald Trump must divest because of his web of domestic and international business relationships that create a conflict of interest for him.
Norman L. Eisen
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To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.
James Cook
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Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.
Stevie Smith
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For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.
George W. S. Trow
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I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.
Michael Trucco
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I think Veblen had an interest in logic.
Stephen Cole Kleene
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Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.
Steve Israel
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Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.
Erin McKeown
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There's things I know I'm good at, and those things interest me less and less. I learn a lot more from doing it wrong than I do from doing it right.
Michael Ian Black