Interest Quotes - page 3

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. (Matthew Arnold)
we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value. View quote
Irving Fisher
...People that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing. View quote
Marc Jacobs
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't. View quote
Albert Camus
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. View quote
Charles Lamb
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead. View quote
William Butler Yeats
It Is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to 50 words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. View quote
Carl Sagan
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. (Evelyn Underhill)
Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing. View quote
George Mason
No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it. View quote
Matsuo Bashō
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. View quote
William J. Brennan
He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook. View quote
Max Stirner
To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world. View quote
Rudolf Steiner
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. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. View quote
Adam Smith
To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest. View quote
Harlan F. Stone
You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else. View quote
Marian Keyes
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. (Penelope Lively)
As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out. View quote
Robert Shea
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia. View quote
Juan Manuel Santos
Where I was born and where and how l have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should of interest. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe