Interest Quotes

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.
Sidney Hook

A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.
Sir Robert Baden-Powell

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind . . . but it does not look as if it did.

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.
Ernst Haas

The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas

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.
William McKinley

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
Anna Julia Cooper

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Journalism's ultimate purpose [is] to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it
John Dalton







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