Interest Quotes

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin)
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. View quote
Winston Churchill
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. View quote
Charles Kettering
I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest. View quote
James Russell Lowell
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. View quote
William Hazlitt
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war. View quote
William McKinley
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. View quote
Thomas Mann
Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy. (Dan Brown)
We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. View quote
Susan Sontag
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. View quote
William Morris
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. View quote
Henry Miller
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. View quote
Oscar Wilde
You cannot write for children... They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. View quote
Maurice Sendak
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. (F. H. Bradley)
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. View quote
Agatha Christie
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. View quote
Denis Diderot
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred. View quote
George Bancroft
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke