Interest Quotes
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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression...
Oscar Wilde
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Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.
Vladimir Lenin
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For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.
E. Haldeman-Julius
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It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.
Simon Sinek
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I think it's important to do things that you're interested in. I think it's important to have other outlets away from the music industry.
Jason Aldean
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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
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I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.
Leontyne Price
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The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely accord with our true policy and interest. If they do not, to observe a proper line of conduct for promoting the one, and avoiding offence to the other, will be a work of great difficulty.
George Washington
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Theres still so much interest in the Beatles and John and still so much mythology.
Bob Spitz
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Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.
Albert Einstein
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I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.
Tom Stoppard
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My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can`t find anything that interests me enough to go back to work. I`m simply not excited about anything. I`m not excited about going to a film set.
Angelina Jolie
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
Oscar Wilde
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Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.
William Hague
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My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them special interest groups everything they want. He'll lick every hand.
Fritz Hollings
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Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you're shady about it, when you're not transparent about it. If you tell everyone, 'Here's what's going on. Here's the process; here are the people that are playing a role' - that's being transparent.
Sean Spicer
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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
Katharine Hepburn
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Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
Wally Herger
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I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.
Kevin Spacey
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My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.
Yousuf Karsh
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Politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.
Amelia Barr
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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
Oscar Wilde
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Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.
Florence Scovel Shinn