Interests Quotes
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What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
Adam Garfinkle
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Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.
Ernest Belfort Bax
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I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
George Eliot
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Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
Blaise Pascal
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Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Remy de Gourmont
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Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.
Regina Brett
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To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The president is the president. And every American, regardless of who you voted for, if you voted for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Donald Duck, I don't really care. We should all hope that the president does a good job, that he's surrounded by wise counselors, that he advances U.S. interests.
Benjamin E. Sasse
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In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.
Bernard Bailyn
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There are ways of fighting for your interests. I never do something in business that I wouldn't do in life.
Vladimir Potanin
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We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security.
Nathanael Greene
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Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?
David Markson
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The people of Afghanistan should know that America is not their friend and that America's war and peace with all other countries are based on its own interests.
Ali Meshkini
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The American people need to know if public servants are operating in the best interests of the United States or the Kremlin.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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It's silly to build a wall around your interests.
Walt Disney
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If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all to think that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me.
Eve Ensler
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How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?
Ivica Dacic
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Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.
Richard Mentor Johnson
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I try to take my interests and make them my work.
George A Tice
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For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.
Eric Greitens
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I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and an unrelenting will to serve the cause, regardless of one's personal interests.
Erwin Rommel
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The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.
George Q. Cannon
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This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me.
Walt Whitman