55 Interest Quotes

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

I started when I was three years old, doing commercials and Modeling in New York, I liked it so much that I kept doing it.

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

I could never figure out - or probably did not take the trouble to figure out - what the great philosophical problems are about. The momentous statements I come across are at best a storm in a teacup. There are quite a number of people who have a vested interest in the stuff, make a noble living out of it, and they conspire with one another to keep it alive.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

You cannot write for children... They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

The worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. ... All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. And, did we even see this, how can we make the difference? How obtain the interest which society declares she does not want, and we cannot want?

I'm showing an interest in your work. I thought you liked me showing an interest in your work. My showing. Save the gerund and screw the whale.

I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.

I like boring things.

Cows are my passion.

Fermat was my childhood passion.

Things keep changing and things keep happening. I never really run out of ideas. I guess as long as I'm interested, I'll be interesting.

I'm so excited to see the kangaroos.

What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.

I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers. :-)

Hemoglobin is in some ways the most interesting of all substances.

The United States is not going in there to save the oppressed. If we wanted to save the oppressed we could have supported the nonviolent movement instead of selling them out at Dayton. Any kind of turbulence in the Balkans is a threat to the interests of rich, privileged, powerful people. Therefore, any turbulence in the Balkans is called a crisis. The same circumstances would not be a crisis were they to occur in Sierra Leone, or Central America, or even Turkey. But in Europe, the heartland of American economic interests, any threat in the Balkans has the possibility of spilling over.

Comme nos interets, nos sentiments different.

No one has a natural right to the trade of a money lender, but he who has the money to lend. Let those then among us who have a moneyed capital and who prefer employing it in loans rather than otherwise, set up banks and give cash or national bills for the notes they discount. Perhaps, to encourage them, a larger interest than is legal in the other cases might be allowed them, on the condition of their lending for short periods only.

(speaking to 'Jovi') It's just nice to meet another human that shares my affinity for elf culture.

I was thinking Bob Marley! Yeah!

Clearly this stranger was the most interesting thing that had happened to Keturah in her entire life

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

Mmm-hmm. Fascinating.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.

Talk to a man about himself, and he is generally captivated.

Morality is a subject that interests us above all others: We fancy the peace of society to be at stake in every decision concerning it; and 'tis evident, that this concern must make our speculations appear more real and solid, than where the subject is, in a great measure, indifferent to us. What affects us, we conclude can never be a chimera; and as our passion is engag'd on the one side or the other, we naturally think that the question lies within human comprehension; which, in other cases of this nature, we are apt to entertain some doubt of. Without this advantage I never should have ventur'd upon a third volume of such abstruse philosophy, in an age, wherein the greatest part of men seem agreed to convert reading into an amusement, and to reject every thing that requires any considerable degree of attention to be comprehended.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. A nation that neglects either of these forces perishes. They must be steered together, like a pair of carriage horses.

It's not like a passionate hobby of mine...

'I don't want to work on stuff I don't like.'

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo exists one consideration no one doubts: the reason for the air attacks, the bombing is not a material interest. The reason is purely humanitarian.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.