Quotes About Interest

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

Invest in yourself to get the best interest.

You will always end up doing what is better for you.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

We've seen a great deal of interest from the Occupy movement. It's a diverse movement, not everyone embraces electoral politics, and no one can speak for Occupy.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

I'm always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects - one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.