Quotes About Interest

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My brother and I were born in London...but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country'. Quoted in The Tale of Beatrix Potter a Biography by Margaret Lane, First Edition p 32-33

This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

I am tired of these affairs, where no one asks what books I've read, only a handful of relatives are interested in how I'm advancing at my job, and everyone quizzes me about my dating life.

Lesley said that my exes knew that past a certain point I'd lost interest, and that's why they always packed me in first. That's not the way I remember it, but Lesley swore she could have constructed a calendar based on my love life. A cyclical one, she said, like the Maya – counting down to disaster. Lesley could be surprisingly erudite sometimes.

He was one of those people who constantly seems to be having a conversation with someone other than the person he's actually talking to—presumably someone much more politically committed. And interested.

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

It was like this," he said. "I made up my mind that I would take in a few of the points of interest in the city I ain't ever got around to. Being a Chicagoan, like most Chicagoans I ain't ever seen any of our natural wonders at all. So first day out I figured that the place no copper would ever look for me would be like the Field Museum and in the zoo and on the beach and like that.

On the other hand, his interest in table tennis was neither puzzling nor malign. He just liked table tennis. The hunt for the Table Tennis Ring was a vivid red herring.

Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction.

We must take an interest in politics. We must become spies on behalf of justice.

Social networking technology didn't really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a general interest in addressing social issues and the practical action.

to gauge their interest—just in case.

I had found it difficult to choose, at the December meeting, between a quarter-point and a half-point rate cut.

I found myself becoming increasingly interested in the policy frameworks that central banks use, and in how those frameworks might be improved.

We—correctly, in hindsight—had resisted raising interest rates.

The Fed is normally very profitable, since we typically earn a higher interest rate on our Treasury and mortgage-backed securities than we pay on the bank reserves that finance our holdings

Soon it might make sense to leave rates where they were for a meeting or two while we assessed the economy's prospects.

But in my heart I knew that use of our emergency authority could only be justified when it served the broad public interest.

Obama seemed more interested in my views than McCain was.

And as estimates of the company's cash needs grew, the interest of potential buyers waned. With

But, as we couldn't say often enough, we weren't doing this for Citi, its executives, its creditors, or anyone on Wall Street, but in the interest of overall economic and financial stability.

by making it costly for them to refinance.

once rates hit zero, it marked the exhaustion of monetary policy options.