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Quotes About Interests

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.
~ William Hague
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.
~ Bertrand Russell
The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.
~ Bertrand Russell
People with the most interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
~ George Matthew Allen
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
~ John Bolton
It has been shown that public participation can limit powerful interest groups, while competing interests can help find a reasonable balance between development and environmental protection.
~ Ma Jun
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.
~ John Hope Franklin
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
~ Leo Tolstoy
History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world.
~ Ahmed Yassin
It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
History is not written in the interests of morality.
~ Agnes Repplier
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
~ George Eliot
Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
~ Alexander Pushkin
My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.
~ Murray Bookchin
I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.
~ Shane McCrae
When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
I have never seen a wrestling match or prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
~ Hedy Lamarr
One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
~ Jasper Johns
Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.
~ Brian Tracy
I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.
~ John F. Kennedy
Your present interests are not a solid basis of a career decisions. So, stop following your passion and Do What Is Valuable.!
~ Moutasem Algharati
Brother Bear was a bear of many interests. He enjoyed sports such
~ Jan Berenstain