I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!

Russia will always protect its national interests.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

Biblioll College. Sir, – I have read your letter with interest; and, judging from your description of yourself as a working-man, I venture to think that you will have a much better chance of success in life by remaining in your own sphere and sticking to your trade than by adopting any other course. That, therefore, is what I advise you to do. Yours faithfully, T. Tetuphenay. To Mr. J. Fawley, Stone-mason

To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen not to regard him with interest, it is one of the fictions of courtesy to presume that he does

There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved

We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can be denied to no independent nation.

The most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape

What I have ever understood about a good letter is that it is the one to which the person can always hear with interest and engagement while the other person is just reading it out for the former one.

The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act.

The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man’s interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.

I have always enjoyed reading, but I’ve never been sure how to select appropriate material. There are so many books in the world–how do you tell them all apart? How do you know which one will match your tastes and interests?

I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play – ‘Othello,’ ‘Julius Caesar,’ ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Hamlet’ – and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having an Easter Egg hunt with those apple-cheeked four year olds was in my best interest and not theirs

As a professor of marketing, I have a professional interest in examining how companies create integrated messages when communicating a corporate image.

Material interests are not the only guiding light.

Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country

I believe in playing aggressive cricket but not at the cost of the team’s interests.

A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.9.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history – military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort of thing. But I think that there is a lot of interest in historical biography and what’s generally called narrative history: history as story-telling.

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.

Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

Tellingly, the department that deals with relations with the rest of the world doesn’t have the word “foreign” in it: it is the State Department. It looks after the interests of one state alone. It might be called the Bargepole Department

If you’re long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Most of my life, I wanted to be a therapist, but then I just decided that I didn’t want to be in charge of giving people advice. I want to know everything there is to know about psychology. But a therapist? No.

Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.

Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the ’70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius’ Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

A thing that many young fellows don’t seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

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

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother’s footsteps and obtained my pilot’s license.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— ‘As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella’—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids

What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.

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

They put the Jewish interest above America’s interest and it’s about goddamn time that the Jew in America realizes he’s an American first and a Jew second.

Anybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. Coco ChanelYou can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

‘Mystic River’ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn’t found interesting things to do.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as “unearned income” and “capitalist,” if not as sinful and wicked.

I never really had much of an interest in fashion.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English – up to fifty words used in correct context – no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

The unfolding of the bare human soul that is what interests me

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart.

I don’t have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death

The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions of the majority of the people’s, and only if it works for their interests can the relationship between the people and the party be healthy.

I have a love interest in every one of my films – a gun.

You can do what you want, but saving love doesn’t bring any interest.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That’s why I think it is important to stay passionate.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster’; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different.

Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn’t matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

I don’t really have many extravagances. I don’t fly private jets and I don’t have bodyguards and I don’t buy crazy things. I have a couple of houses here and there. I bought a very expensive watch, and I am going to buy a really expensive movie poster, the original for The Thief of Bagdad (1940). I love movie posters.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you. Find yourself.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick

No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

I read [Gandhi’s] book with great interest because I think the question [of] passive resistance … is a question of the greatest importance … for the whole humanity.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

Lots of other drivers like cycling, but I’m not so keen. I have some really cool bikes, but I’m just not in love with it like Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.

I have so much energy. I train, I travel, I’m learning about music and fashion, reading a lot. I don’t want to miss anything. I want to experience everything.”

I love to be on the move, and I am fortunate that I have friends all over the world.

I listen to music before every race. Generally, there will be a song I’ll get into over the weekend, and I play it all weekend, particularly when I’m getting ready for a race.

When you win something, once, twice, three times, and you have that feeling, that pushes you forward again. You want to win more and more and more.

I always look forward to playing for my national team, especially at a major tournament

I’m a rapper, but I’m more of a hustler.

I want to be able to help the coach and team as much as I can.

I had great relationships with all the four coaches I played under at Real Madrid. They all helped me improve, but if I had to pick the best, I would pick Ancelotti.

For me, being Mom in Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

I’m willing to take any amount of pain to win.