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Quotes About Interests

My husband is endlessly fascinated by machines," Mrs. Hunt said, laughing. "I believe they've eclipsed all his other interests." "Not all," Hunt said softly. Something about the way he glanced at his wife caused her cheeks to flush.
~ Lisa Kleypas
She had a vague notion that dogs preferred football and politics. This
~ Unknown
They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.
~ Loretta Chase
I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish.
~ Jim Butcher
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrustive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
~ Joan Didion
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out .
~ Joan Didion
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does.
~ Joan Didion
Unless he has his own selfish interests at heart. He wants you to get so mad at Norman that you'll fall into his arms on the rebound. Either that, or . . ." Andrea faltered and Hannah stepped in with a possible explanation. "Either that or Mike has the IQ of a small kitchen appliance.
~ Joanne Fluke
Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.
~ Jodi Picoult
If you want to live a great life, stop asking everyone else for permission. Stop seeking to live up to other people's expectations, and listen to your head, your feelings, and your heart. Be willing to take risks and to try what interests you. Don't give up too early - and don't assume you'll fail. Give yourself permission to always be yourself, to be genuine with others, and to carve out your own path.
~ Unknown
Wealth is when you have a lot of something you love.
~ Unknown
The sentiment that is very inappropriately named quality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of equality and is not related to any abstraction, as a few naive "intellectuals" still believe; but because it is related to the direct interests of individuals who are bent on escaping certain inequalities not in their favour, and setting up new inequalities that will be in their favour, that latter being their chief concern.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
If you don't like vampire games, don't play
~ Vivian Vande Velde
Por isso dizemos que para nós não há uma moral situada fora da sociedade humana; isso é um engano. Para nós, a moral está subordinada aos interesses da luta de classes do proletariado.
~ Vladimir Lenin
All officials, without exception, elected and subject to recall at any time, their salaries reduced to the level of ordinary "workmen's wages" — these simple and "self-evident" democratic measures, while completely uniting the interests of the workers and the majority of the peasants, at the same time serve as a bridge leading from capitalism to socialism.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Our society must understand that a minority--a certain category of people-- must be paid very well by the state, so that they can secure the interests of the majority. When will we finally begin to understand this? Our people aren't stupid. It's just that it hasn't been explained the right way.
~ Vladimir Putin
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
~ Voltaire
Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks, a life which is much subdivided when those subdivisions are not of the same kind, and when new and diverse interests, impressions, and labours follow each other in swift and distinct successions, seems the most long…
~ Unknown
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.
~ Kevin Sampsell
One thing is clear: The Iraqi people are showing incredible courage. The United States of America must understand that it's in our interests that we help this democracy succeed.
~ George W. Bush
Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.
~ Christopher Bollen
Don't put all of your focus on dating. Typically, if you're involved in outside activities and causes that you are passionate about, chances are that you're meeting people with similar interests.
~ Auliq Ice
In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.
~ Unknown