Quotes with interests

Quotes 101 till 114 of 114.

  • Ben Elton We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Barry Diller What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Albert Einstein What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • George Eliot When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Carroll Quigley When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Amartya Sen While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Henry David Thoreau You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Arne Jacobsen You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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