Quotes About Interest

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.

Mounted on a horse, we were useful in direct proportion to our powers of observation and our ability to interpret what we say, faculties, of course, which are sharpened by interest. And our interest was boundless.

You care enough to play hard to get.

This sound self-serving, but being interested in everything makes you a more effective opportunist—and that's what an editor has to be, a student of unintended consequences.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

By the way, both the men of my regiment and the friends I had made in the old days in the West were themselves a little puzzled at the interest shown in my making my speech after being shot. This was what they expected, what they accepted as the right thing for a man to do under the circumstances, a thing the non-performance of which would have been discreditable rather than the performance being creditable.

There is no soul under heaven that commonly lies under the commanding power of the Word, but that soul that has an interest in the Word of Promise.

Humanity is God's constant preoccupation throughout the Bible. The Christian study of God cannot neglect God's own prevailing interest—the redemption of humanity. No Christian theology can speak only of God and never of human beings.

But it often looks as though the interest was there. The thing petered out in spite of interest. Nearly everybody, if asked, alleges that he'd have continued attending pretty regularly if enough others had cared enough to attend regularly enough to make it worthwhile

To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen not to regard him with interest, it is one of the fictions of courtesy to presume that he does.

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

Nebraska and Indiana were really the only Division One schools that expressed any interest in me.

I'm just interested in building a company that doesn't necessarily change lives but adapts people's behaviour.