Quotes About Interest

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.

Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .

Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

I never get tired of talking about food. I do getting tired of fighting governments when they are so clearly not putting the best interest of the children forward.

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom than their immediate desire to view a particular site.

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.

If you wish to be more influential, spend more time being interested than you do trying to be interesting.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.