What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest

I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't have interests, it's just that I don't have the time.

The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.

I never talk about things that don't matter. I never talk about things that are unimportant. I always talk about things that interest me.

A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.

It's very early in the market. I don't want to pretend I know exactly how this rolls out. But there's been an enormous amount of interest.

I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

I'm not a foodie; I'm an eatie. I don't have anything against foodies. I just don't have the time or the interest to do that much research.

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.

The worst fault a salesman can commit is to be a bore...... Pretend to be vastly interested in any subject the prospects shows an interest in.

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

I was only interested in music, but I spent so much time in the clubs and seeing fashions change. So naturally, I developed an interest in it.

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.

A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

I think I understand the line between my job and the director's. I have no interest in directing. Not my movie, not your movie, nobody's movie.

I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please the seller. The interests of the buyer are forgotten.

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.

Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.

Really, what I'm always drawn to is the voice - PJ Harvey , Björk . If the voice interests me, then I'm interested to listen to what's happening.

I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Yeah, I'm a fan of the Blue Jays. It's hard. My sports interest has definitely decreased since we've been on the road. It's really hard to follow.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

I don't know that I've ever been someone who's interested in existing on tour. I have a lot of interests and a lot of other things that excite me.

Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

There's things I know I'm good at, and those things interest me less and less. I learn a lot more from doing it wrong than I do from doing it right.

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

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.

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