Quotes with low-interest

Quotes 281 till 300 of 337.

  • Agnetha Faltskog This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Oliver Cromwell Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keeps peace.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Samuel Johnson To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Frank Gelett Burgess To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
    Frank Gelett Burgess
    American artist, art critic and poet
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  • Oscar Wilde To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Oxenham To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.
    John Oxenham
    English journalist, writer and poet (ps. of William Arthur Dunkerley) (1852 - 1941)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Tryon Edwards To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bobby Scott Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Dedman Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Mark Twain We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alva Myrdal We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Woodrow Wilson We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Ann Macbeth We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Asa Gray We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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