Quotes of: Vested-interest Keyword

I believe I’m very normal. I’m hyper-normal. I’m more normal than anyone else I know. I think my thoughts, my indulgences, my desires, my pleasures may at first appear different, but that is only because they are more normal, not because they a...

Information Anxiety 2

Not only those who can talk the best tell you the most interesting things.

Chinese

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.

Culpa Innata

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

You don't find a masked man wielding a gun interesting? Tell me...what do you find interesting then-Matt Carter

Darwin's Children

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

Ender's Game

She unzipped her oversized flannel onesie, created especially for women not interested in finding a man, and tossed it on the bed.

Blind Love

It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

Bumi Manusia

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.

Gunther Schuller

For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.

Joyce Carol Oates

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Julian Baggini

I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.

Lily Cole

In 2010, the BBC spent nearly £230,000 on tea, but only £2000 on biscuits.

1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Blow Your Socks Off

The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.

Americans and Europeans: Dancing in the Dark - On Our Differences and Affinities, Our Interests, and Our Habits of Life

He looked people in the eye not because he was interested in them but because he knew it made them feel that he was interested in them

Americanah

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

Journey to the End of the Night

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

A Pirate Looks at Fifty

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.

Very Narrow Bridge

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

Hillary Clinton

I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.

Kazuo Ishiguro

One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala