Quotes about Interest
The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.
- James Madison
Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest.
- George W. Bush
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.
- James A. Garfield
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
- Mark Twain
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
- Alexander Hamilton
The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's existence apart from divine revelation.
- William Lane Craig
I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.
- Marcus Aurelius
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.
- Jay-Z
Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
- Wendell Berry