Quotes About Interests

The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the resistance of urban and rural interests.

Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

We will reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers, the forgotten people. Workers. We're going to take care of our workers.

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

Growing economies are built by billions of actors behaving according to their own interests, coordinated through institutions that no one in particular created. Realizing this requires humility, a trait that is in short supply among would-be dictators, politicians, and bureaucrats, which is precisely why these groups are the proven enemies of prosperity in all times and places.

I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

His remorse was purely physical. Only his body, strained nerves, and cowering flesh were afraid of the drowned man. Conscience played no part in his terrors, and he had not the slightest regret about killing Camille; in his moments of calm, when the spectre was not present, he would have committed the murder over again had he thought his interests required it.

Os serenos e generosos são apenas egoístas um pouco mais justos do que os tiranos – e a felicidade acabou quando as circunstâncias levaram ambos a perceber que os interesses de um não eram considerações importantes nos pensamentos do outro.

They're her book club but I don't know why because they're not reading books.

True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.

the cost incurred by the agent to commit itself not to act against the principal's interest (the bonding cost), and (3) costs associated with an outcome that does not fully serve the interests of the principal

she) follows the interests of the principal, (2) the cost incurred by the agent to commit itself not to act against the principal's interest (the bonding cost), and (3) costs associated with an outcome that does not fully serve the interests of the principal (Jensen

Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part. Worse still, the fraction so favored is determined by an accident of birth or residence.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Souvent, lorsqu'un pays trahit ses valeurs, il trahit aussi ses intérêts.

A government for protecting the coarser interests of the body, business and bread only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption to decay.

There is no farm-state equivalent for intelligence, no geographic center of industry or interests that encourages legislators to focus on intelligence oversight to win voter support. As Michael Hayden told me, "No member ever gets a bridge built or a road paved by serving on the intelligence committee. It's an act of patriotism.

Yo creo que uno puede llegar a hacer dinero en cualquier profesión. Elije tu carrera mirando con cuidado tus intereses, tu vocación, tu perfil de personalidad y tus habilidades.

Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations were colored by their economic interests. This pattern was played out in the history of the Rice family, whose evangelical theology underwent a transformation as they moved within two generations from being small yeoman farmers to landed proprietors whose wealth depended upon the system of chattel slavery.

Slavery proved to be a much more complicated issue for American evangelicals both North and South, who discovered that their religious attitudes and interpretations were colored by their economic interests.

The marriage of military metaphysics with eschatological ambition is a misbegotten one, contrary to the long-term interests of either the American people or the world beyond our borders.

It's a reasonable thing to tell somebody, 'I've watched 70 hours of 'Game of Thrones.'' That's a totally normal, boring thing to say about yourself. But if you were like, 'I just spent 100 hours playing 'Skyrim,'' people think you're a weirdo.

The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.

Fulla is the Arab world's answer to Barbie. Now, according to proponents of the clash of civilizations, Barbie and Fulla occupy these completely separate spheres. They have different interests. They have divergent values. And should they ever come in contact... well, I've got to tell you, it's just not going to be pretty.