Quotes About Interest

Next time?" he smiled; his eyes brightened; he was no longer a divinely superior person, but an interested male.

I had discovered the gossip test—what you are really interested in is what you gossip about.

This is the meaning of state autonomy: a government that is responsive to interest groups but not owned by them, that is not too easily swayed by the short-term vagaries of democratic public opinion but rather looks to long-term public interest.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

We are interested in what we love. We love what we are interested in. What we are interested in also loves us and is interested in us. And the way this interest and love unveils is one of the major mysteries of life.

The books which seal off the long perspectives, which sever us from our losses, which represent the world of potency as a world of act, these are the books which, when the drug wears off, go on to the dump with the other empty bottles. Those that continue to interest us move through time to an end, an end we must sense even if we cannot know it; they live in change, until, which is never, as and is are one.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.

For example, to value a ten-year bond with a 6 percent coupon, simply calculate what each of the interest payments and the principal repayment are worth today, in terms of present value. The sum of these individual values is the bond's total value.

It wasn't clear what "emerging" meant, or how these markets might "emerge." Still, it sounded awfully good, and it helped cloud the fact that the emerging bond an investor bought actually was a Peruvian loan that hadn't paid any interest since the 1800s.

There seems to be no question that [Mussolini] is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy.

The young bourgeoisie, which seems stricken by premature senility, ignores the advice proffered and proves incapable of understanding that it is in its own interest to veil, even slightly, its exploitation of the people.

The enemy digs in. The great showdown is not for today or for tomorrow. In fact it began on the very first day, and will not end with the demise of the enemy but quite simply when the latter has come to realize, for a number of reasons, that it is in his interest to terminate the struggle and acknowledge the sovereignty of the colonized people.

It's good to be curious about many things.

Many people work very hard at the things they do for fun.

Let's assume that people respond to stress." "Is that true?" "Well, not just negative stress, but also positive stress like interest, or ambition. If they're under too little stress, they don't care, so it's very hard to motivate them to do something. But if they're under too much stress, they panic. They freeze, or they get angry and do completely irrational things.

An interest rate is the cost of borrowing or the price paid for the rental of funds (usually expressed as a percentage of the rental of $100 per year). Many types of interest rates are found in the economy—mortgage interest rates, car loan rates, and interest rates on many different types of bonds.

O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy

My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.

You're only as interesting to the extent of those that are interested in you.

bit you, Kendra, but I could never take control of you. Your mind is shielded. None of those enemies are of serious interest except for the Sphinx and Mr. Lich. Despite her delusions, Torina is really just a minor player. I'm curious about the person in the mask. Could it have been the prisoner from the Quiet Box?

Meilin passed stared at her. Some covertly

there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

Generally people don't recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended to you. Perhaps, even, you have been given books by friends, parents, teachers, then told that these books are the type you have to read. Those books are invariably described as "important"- which in my experience, pretty much means that they're boring. (words like meaningful and thoughtful are other good clues.)