Quotes About Interest

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

fensiveness n. A knee-jerk territorial reaction when a friend displays a casual interest in one of your obsessions.

Customers deposit money in a bank for interest; the bank lends that money to other people at a higher rate of interest. This isn't glamorous or interesting, but then banking is not supposed to resemble base jumping or hip-hop.

The greatest trick that powerful interest groups ever pulled was convincing the world that everyone who detects and reports their activities is a conspiracy theorist.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

For though the law of nature be plain and intelligible to all rational creatures; yet men, being biased by their interest, as well as ignorant for want of study of it, are not apt to allow of it as a law binding to them in the application of it to their particular cases.

God; I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other. If this be not done, there can be no end put to the controversies that will be always arising between those that have, or at least pretend to have, on the one side, a concernment for the interest of men's souls, and, on the other side, a care of the commonwealth.

Tis in vain therefore to go about effectually to reduce the price of Interest by a Law; and you may as rationally hope to set a fixt Rate upon the Hire of Houses, or Ships, as of Money.

Adam's children, being not presently as soon as born under this law of reason, were not presently free : for law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under that law:

Just because school's boring so much of the time, that doesn't mean kids don't want to learn.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...

Why couldn't the game be more accessible to the average person? Why shouldn't tennis get the same kind of treatment—and interest—as baseball, basketball, or football?

I wasn't interested in society, or ancient people's money troubles. I wanted to know what books really meant.

She knew she should be happy the girls were outside riding their very expensive horses. Girls who rode became interested in boys and makeup and cigarettes much later than their nonriding counterparts.

None of you children seem to have inherited my love of gardening (unless you count Nick, and the pot plants in the attic)

and asks how the hotel is coming along, Lizbet changes the subject to Sharon's children. (Sharon has no interest in talking about her children; they've just become teenagers.)

Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit – in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. (Hardin 1968, p. 1,244)

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

Thank you for the sympathy and interest which you have extended towards us in our heavy affliction. Even you cannot know all that we have lost; but God knows, and it has pleased Him to take away the blessing that He gave. And all must be right since He doeth all! Indeed we did not foresee this great grief! If we had we could not have felt it less; but I should not then have been denied the consolation of being with her at the last.

It's hard not to like someone who's genuinely interested in you. Or genuinely interested in things, in general.

They had barely spoken for fifteen years, and only the mortal peril engendered by the Angel Dust's interest in their daughter had brought them back into alliance again.

You have power, lady, and that power is of interest to my Queen. As it is to the one who holds my esteemed counterpart's leash.

Whiskey pricked up his ears, arching his neck, knowing himself displayed.

I'm flattered to find out I'm a topic of conversation anywhere. I'm a tugboat engineer.