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Quotes About Interests

win-win is hopelessly misguided as a basis for good negotiating, in business or in your personal life or anywhere else.
~ Jim Camp
Perversion interests me most and is my guiding darkness.
~ Joan Schenkar
The entrenched interests of the regional nobility prevented the proper functioning of a government built upon ethical practice. While high-minded scholars often called for reforms, their memoranda carried little weight with an idle aristocracy.
~ Joan Stanley-Baker
The world,' said he, pursuing this train of thought, 'ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence. Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.
~ Ann Radcliffe
I live for two things in life: gossip and metaphysics.
~ Anna Akhmatova
For the first time in her life she could talk openly of the things which interested her and were important to her. She had a great need of speech, of putting her thoughts into words; otherwise her thoughts seemed to escape her, flying about her brain in a wild confusion. It needed the power of words to put them in their places. And Rachel was full of understanding, using her sensitiveness to fan the thoughts of Anna towards coherency.
~ Anna Kavan
Men like other men who share the same interests so that they can focus their activities and discussions on things that are satisfying for both of them. Women are less concerned with common interests than with common character.
~ Anne Campbell
their kids in hockey, soccer, and judo. Girls are now passionate about ballroom dancing and tango,
~ Anne Garrels
For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.
~ Padma Lakshmi
I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
~ Quentin Blake
I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.
~ Justin Cronin
Peace is costly to the profits of the military/security complex. Washington's gigantic military and security interests are far more powerful than the peace lobby.
~ Paul Craig Roberts
I would argue that the charter schools are really good at building programming and curriculum around the issues and the interests of the kids that they serve.
~ Charlie Baker
Film is a natural progression for Saban Capital Group with existing interests already in television, media and brands.
~ Haim Saban
I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.
~ David Macaulay
I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.
~ Richard Dawkins
If a relationship does not promote a state's legitimate interests, there is no reason a state should sanction it.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
It's very clear that TPP was promoted by corporate interests, it was driven by ideology, not by economic science. And when they started looking at the net trade benefits, they are miniscule.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.
~ John Berger
Our defence capabilities are critical to securing our interests and guarding our way of life, and they must be properly funded.
~ Penny Mordaunt
With every wish to take Europe forward with a German-French nucleus, the proposals must always fit with German interests.
~ Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
~ Nancy Pelosi
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.
~ Joseph Hume
They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
~ Ted Lindsay