Quotes About Interest

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.

The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Incised in the stone over the Herbert C. Hoover Building's north entrance is the legend that, with Lincoln's characteristic brevity, sums up the single most powerful idea in the world: THE PATENT SYSTEM ADDED THE FUEL OF INTEREST TO THE FIRE OF GENIUS

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

A Fourth Turning brings new interest in the rational and classical, in simplicity, restraint, and decorum—while gender-related fashions begin to reformalize and return to elegance.

It was always the same: everywhere there were the hard-hearted who pretended an interest, who began a conversation and then, their cadging over, walked away.

Imagine, representatives of our own government taking the side of a foreign country over the interest of American citizen. If it ever gets to where it's that way all the time, I tell you, this country won't be a fit place to live.

how interest can draw a film across the eyes, so think, that total blindness could do no more; and how it is our duty therefore to trust not to the reasonings of interested men, or to their way of colouring a transaction. William Wilberforce, 12th May 1789, Against the slave trade

Specifically, I said words to the effect that "if it isn't about modal logic or Sanskrit, I don't think I want to write about it anymore.