Quotes of: Interested Keyword

I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.

Ken Burns

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Peter Hammill

Worried about fitting in, being part of a group, feeling accepted? People gather in groups of similar interests, but these interests are usually based on external preferences and attires. “We think that if other people like this sport or activity, ...

Divine Union

The Christian message has a moral challenge. If the message is true, the moral challenge has to be accepted. So God is not a fit object for man’s detached scrutiny. You cannot fix God at the end of a telescope or a microscope and say “How interes...

Basic Christianity

The beliefs and behaviour of the Restoration reflect the theories of society put forward by Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan, which was written in exile in Paris and published in 1651. Like many texts of the time, The Leviathan is an allegory. It recal...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Beyond egoistic interests there is no goodness. If one decides to do some good thing, of course according to his ideal of goodness, it must be connected to his Ego consciously or unconsciously. One of noble motives that triggers to do goodness is emp...

Elmar Hussein

Lavender Brown: [runs into the hospital wing, after Ron's been poisoned] Where is he? Where's my Won-Won? Has he been asking for me? [sees Hermione sitting next to Ron's bed] Lavender Brown: What is she doing here? Hermione Granger: [stands] I might ...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.

The Concubine's Daughter

Interesting office management skills, kind of a 'violence is not the answer so I'm going to beat the shit out of you philosophy.

The Cold Dish

I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

Catching Fire

How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could.

Collected Poems

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.

Complete Works of John Owen, 16 Volume Set

She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

Ten minutes later, I chance a second look. They say curiosity killed the cat. I wonder what that cat was looking at, and was it as interesting as this?

Discovering April

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

Fire and Hemlock

It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.

Fair Play

Never let a boy know you’re crazy about him. He’ll lose interest, and then you’ll be a loser.

Getting Lost with Boys

Pesticide is meant to deal with pests as passion is to deal with unnecessary loss of interest! Passion kills the ghosts of "I can't".

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

House Atreides