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Quotes About Interest

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's wonderful books.
~ John Debney
You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.
~ Kim Harrison
In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.
~ Helen Fisher
I love 'Mad Men' & 'Nip Tuck.'
~ Sara Ramirez
Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
~ A. E. Housman
How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?
~ Albert Camus
For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.
~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
~ Bette Midler
I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.
~ C. S. Lewis
I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.
~ Christine Quinn
Women really like the horses, more so than men.
~ Danny Fox
Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
~ Edmund Burke
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.
~ Edmund Burke
What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?
~ Edmund Waller
I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
~ Elizabeth George
I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
~ Gary Busey
No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.
~ Gerald Stanley Lee
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
~ Matthew Arnold
We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
~ Pliny the Elder
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson