300 Quotes on Interest

• My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

  Author: Warren Zevon

• I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.

  Author: Susannah York

• We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

  Author: William Yeats

• If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we won't.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

  Author: Francis Wright

• Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

  Author: Herman Wouk

• Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

  Author: Ron Wood

• Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

  Author: Markus Wolf

• Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today.

  Author: John Wise

• The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

  Author: Edgar Winter

• I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

  Author: Terri Windling

• Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• I built my own hi-fi set and enjoyed helping friends with their amateur radio transmitters, but lost interest as soon as they worked.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

  Author: James Wilson

• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

  Author: E. Wilson

• Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

  Author: Ted Williams

• Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• We are meeting with Sony, and we have a couple of other labels that suddenly have interest and that's really great because none of them have actually heard our stuff.

  Author: Shane West

• I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

  Author: Morris West

• And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

  Author: Morris West

• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

  Author: Mae West

• The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

  Author: Carolyn Wells

• The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases, I think with weapons of mass destruction.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

  Author: Noah Webster

• Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

  Author: Sam Waterston

• Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

  Author: George Washington

• Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

  Author: Peter Warlock

• There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

  Author: John Walton

• We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News.

  Author: Jim Walton

• We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

  Author: John Walters

• I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

  Author: Barbara Walters

• We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

  Author: Edmund Waller

• They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

  Author: Benjamin Wade

• It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

  Author: Fay Vincent

• Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

  Author: William Vickrey

• I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.

  Author: Charles Vest

• I really don't have that much interest in stardom.

  Author: Tom Verlaine

• This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

  Author: Wietse Venema

• Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

  Author: Evelyn Underhill

• Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

  Author: Evelyn Underhill

• Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

  Author: Mark Udall

• My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

  Author: John Turturro

• The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.

  Author: Gene Tunney

• I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

  Author: David Tudor

• I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

  Author: Alex Trebek

• If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.

  Author: Robert Towne

• Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like.

  Author: Clyde Tombaugh

• I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

  Author: Michael Tippett

• I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

  Author: John Thorn

• The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

  Author: John Thorn

• A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  Author: Irving Thalberg

• I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows.

  Author: Paul Taylor

• My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

  Author: Henry Taube

• Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

  Author: Janet Suzman

• The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.

  Author: Kim Sung

• There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

  Author: Janet Stuart

• The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

  Author: Janet Stuart

• We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted.

  Author: Trish Stratus

• To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

  Author: Harlan Stone

• It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

  Author: George Stigler

• I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

  Author: George Steinbrenner

• Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

  Author: Leigh Steinberg

• My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.

  Author: Philip Stanhope

• Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.

  Author: Leland Stanford

• I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

  Author: Norman Spinrad

• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  Author: Larry Speakes

• I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

  Author: James Spader

• 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.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

  Author: John Sousa

• Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

  Author: Peter Sotos

• Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

  Author: Ralph Sockman

• I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.

  Author: William Smith

• No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

  Author: Goldwin Smith

• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

  Author: Adam Smith

• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

  Author: Adam Smith

• Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

  Author: Albion Small

• Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

  Author: Allan Sloan

• As we realise that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

  Author: Peter Singer

• I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest.

  Author: Ashlee Simpson

• So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different.

  Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

• I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

  Author: Cindy Sherman

• You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

  Author: Richard Sheridan

• And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

  Author: Robert Sheckley

• As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out.

  Author: Robert Shea

• Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

  Author: George Shaw

• Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

  Author: George Shaw

• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  Author: Ted Shackelford

• I did theater when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.

  Author: Amanda Seyfried

• I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

  Author: Jeff Sessions

• But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

  Author: Richard Serra

• You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

  Author: Maurice Sendak

• I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

  Author: Earl Scruggs

• The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

  Author: William Scranton

• I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.

  Author: Tim Scott

• The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

  Author: Robert Scott

• The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

  Author: Campbell Scott

• Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.

  Author: James Schuyler

• Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

  Author: Joseph Schumpeter

• My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air.

  Author: Klaus Schulze

• Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

  Author: Michael Schenker

• For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

  Author: Ferdinand Saussure

• Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

  Author: Paul Samuelson

• Our talks in Paris tackled economic, democratic, security and political issues; we talked on means for combating terrorism, in addition to latest regional and international developments of mutual interest, especially those in region.

  Author: Ali Saleh

• If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.

  Author: Jeri Ryan

• I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

  Author: Warren Rue

• The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

  Author: Karl Rove

• A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

  Author: Georges Rouault

• One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

  Author: Jean Rostand

• Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.

  Author: Elihu Root

• I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

  Author: Bill Rodgers

• We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else.

  Author: George Rockwell

• Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

  Author: David Rockefeller

• What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.

  Author: John Robinson

• In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

  Author: John Robinson

• But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

  Author: John Robinson

• The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

  Author: John Robinson

• In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.

  Author: Jay Roach

• You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.

  Author: Jay Roach

• Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

  Author: Antoine Rivarol

• I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.

  Author: Michael Ritchie

• He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

  Author: Rainer Rilke

• Reality doesn't interest me.

  Author: Leni Riefenstahl

• My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star.

  Author: Charles Richter

• There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

  Author: Tim Rice

• I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.

  Author: Boyd Rice

• Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

  Author: Boyd Rice

• We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

  Author: Jules Renard

• I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

  Author: Frederick Reines

• It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

  Author: Wilhelm Reich

• People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.

  Author: Ralph Regula

• The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

  Author: Lou Reed

• Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

  Author: Johannes Rau

• We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

• We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

  Author: Rodrigo Rato

• With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.

  Author: Harold Ramis

• And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.

  Author: Franklin Raines

• And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

  Author: Franklin Raines

• Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages.

  Author: Franklin Raines

• Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

  Author: Raymond Queneau

• And that's the one thing that people do not understand is that we have very low interest rates and if those go back to historical levels or even go back to scary thoughts that they're back in the late '70s, early '80s, then that's going to really be hard to actually pay off those debts. It's going to be a - it's going to be a very big problem.

  Author: Ben Quayle

• I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.

  Author: Laisenia Qarase

• I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

  Author: Philip Pullman

• They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.

  Author: Laura Prepon

• The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!

  Author: Susan Powter

• At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

  Author: John Pople

• I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China.

  Author: John Pomfret

• My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

  Author: Jackson Pollock

• There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.

  Author: Trevor Phillips

• The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.

  Author: William Petty

• I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

  Author: Antoinette Perry

• I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.

  Author: Ron Perlman

• Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

  Author: Richard Perle

• So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.

  Author: John Perkins

• The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which we've done.

  Author: John Perkins

• Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

  Author: Pericles

• I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

  Author: Shimon Peres

• Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

  Author: Sean Penn

• You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

  Author: Ron Paul

• Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

  Author: Talcott Parsons

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  Author: Talcott Parsons

• There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

  Author: Evan Parker

• My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

  Author: Christopher Parker

• I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.

  Author: Bob Paisley

• The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

  Author: Thomas Paine

• Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear.

  Author: Johnny Olson

• What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

  Author: Jamie Oliver

• My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

  Author: George Olah

• I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.

  Author: Al Oerter

• It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980.

  Author: William Odom

• It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

  Author: William Odom

• Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

  Author: Richard O'Brien

• Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

  Author: Ann Oakley

• I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

  Author: Paul Nurse

• If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

  Author: Eleanor Norton

• It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.

  Author: Dudley North

• It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, that will lend; the Legislative must provide a Fund to borrow upon.

  Author: Dudley North

• The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent Interest for Money lent, or to leave the Borrower and Lender to make their own Bargains.

  Author: Dudley North

• So that it cannot be denied, but the lowering of Interest may, and probably will keep some Money from coming abroad into Trade; whereas on the contrary, high Interest certainly brings it out.

  Author: Dudley North

• Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

  Author: Grover Norquist

• Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• I don't have a strong interest in history.

  Author: Larry Niven

• I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

  Author: Ruud Nistelrooy

• That's the most difficult issue for me... to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.

  Author: Leonard Nimoy

• Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

  Author: Earl Nightingale

• People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

  Author: Simon Newcomb

• Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.

  Author: Joseph Needham

• I think that the World Cup is a big factor for this increased interest. I don't believe all of this is a result of just myself but also because of the others who are playing abroad.

  Author: Hidetoshi Nakata

• We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

  Author: Alva Myrdal

• And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

  Author: Story Musgrave

• Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.

  Author: Said Musa

• Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

  Author: Frank Murphy

• A plant's ability to grow, increase and sustain itself became of secondary and almost minimal interest.

  Author: Bill Munson

• Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

  Author: Hector Munro

• The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them.

  Author: Jamie Muir

• When the new ownership came in, they made some decisions I wasn't pleased with. And when they changed the whole aspect of it, I just totally lost interest.

  Author: Alonzo Mourning

• I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.

  Author: Kate Moss

• The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

  Author: Simon Morris

• Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.

  Author: Dick Morris

• I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

  Author: Robert Morgan

• Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.

  Author: Thurston Moore

• If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

  Author: Marianne Moore

• What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

  Author: Rick Moody

• As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

  Author: John Moody

• Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

  Author: Dwight Moody

• It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.

  Author: Gretchen Mol

• I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.

  Author: Katherine Moennig

• I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

  Author: George Mitchell

• My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.

  Author: Merton Miller

• In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

  Author: Laura Miller

• A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

  Author: Jonathan Miller

• Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

  Author: Paul Meyer

• At this point I have no interest in returning to wrestling. I am pursuing my acting career. But I never say never. I enjoyed the three years I was in the wrestling industry.

  Author: Rita Mero

• The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

  Author: Angela Merkel

• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

  Author: H. Mencken

• My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.

  Author: Simon Meer

• In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.

  Author: Tim Meadows

• I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

  Author: Donella Meadows

• In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

  Author: James Meade

• My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.

  Author: James Meade

• Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

  Author: George Mead

• Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

  Author: William McKinley

• I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

  Author: Tim McGraw

• What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.

  Author: Chris Matthews

• Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

  Author: George Mason

• When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

  Author: Richard Marx

• Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.

  Author: Robert Martin

• He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

  Author: Jose Marti

• The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

  Author: Jose Marti

• It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

  Author: Branford Marsalis

• Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.

  Author: Neville Marriner

• My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

  Author: Rudolph Marcus

• I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

  Author: Lata Mangeshkar

• You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

  Author: Edouard Manet

• The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

  Author: Bryan Magee

• Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

  Author: James Madison

• A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.

  Author: Elle Macpherson

• One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

  Author: Mary MacLane

• People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

  Author: Norman MacCaig

• We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.

  Author: Ann Macbeth

• My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

  Author: Paul Lynde

• Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

  Author: Juliette Low

• Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.

  Author: Courtney Love

• When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.

  Author: Bjorn Lomborg

• But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.

  Author: Henry Lodge

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