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Quotes About Interest

Memories did not come in a rush, but little by little; and perhaps that was just as well. She was getting back her interest in life, she was learning to live in this new-old world and be useful in it, much more so than she had been in the past, for she had been a self-centered person, ravenous for pleasure and praise.
~ Upton Sinclair
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
~ Upton Sinclair
and it was extraordinary to me that some of the newspapers could have found good words for the butchery on the coast. But people are like that bout places in which they aren't really interested and where thy don't have to live.
~ V.S. Naipaul
Whatever they say about going back to the beginning, they'll be interested in the car.
~ V.S. Naipaul
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
~ Victor Hugo
Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.
~ Victor Hugo
There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are not concerned in them
~ Victor Hugo
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. This of all miseries is the coldest.
~ Victor Hugo
No one is more avidly curious about other people's doings than those persons whom they do not concern.
~ Victor Hugo
AFTER TEN HOURS OF hard labor beneath a hot sun, Elsa climbed down from the truck. She had her work chit in one gloved hand. It wasn't worth much, but it was something. The company store charged the camp residents ten percent to convert the chit to credit, but they couldn't cash it anywhere else; if they wanted cash instead of credit, they had to pay interest. So, in point of fact, as little as they were paid, it was really even ten percent less.
~ Kristin Hannah
The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.
~ Kurt Tucholsky
Nicio activitate nu poate fi trainica daca nu se intemeiaza pe interesul personal
~ L. N. Tolstoi
The answer is to decriminalize and to ignore drugs. They don't profit people then and nobody is interested.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
but never really made an effort to talk to her. Never really felt the need. She wasn't my type, if I even had a type.
~ L. Wilder
There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they feel no other pleasure but to acquire money.
~ la bruyere jean de ii
The shortest and best way of making your fortune is to let people clearly see that it is their interest to promote yours.
~ la bruyere jean de iii
Nothing is less sincere than the manner of asking and giving advice. He who asks it seems to have a respectful deference for the opinion of his friend; though he only aims at making him approve his own, and be responsible for his conduct. And he who gives it, repays the confidence reposed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal; though he seldom means anything by the advice he gives but his own interest or reputation.
~ la rochefoucauld v
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
Kitchens and women were both subjects that simply did not intrigue him.
~ Laini Taylor
Tienes razón. Muy aburrida. Empezaré a coleccionar sellos. Eso es interesante, ¿no? - No. A menos que te los vayas a pegar por el cuerpo y los utilices como ropa.
~ Laini Taylor
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
~ lamb charles iii
Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.
~ lamb charles iii
I've always been interested in making movies.
~ Lance Bass
I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults and when I say 'great for adults ' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
~ Lance Reddick