Interest Quotes

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.

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.

I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

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.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.

I never thought that Syria and Israel should engage in a violent confrontation because I don't think that there is any particular interest for any of us to do it.

Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear.

I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.

Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

It's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

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.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows.

I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they'd have to drop it on purpose.

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

I've always had an interest in sports across the board.

I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.

I really don't have that much interest in stardom.

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

Who is in charge? Is it taxpayers or is it the special interest groups?

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News.

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we won't.

I don't interest myself that much.

There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.

A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.