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Letter "I" » Interest
«Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.»
Author: Al Spalding
| About:
Baseball,
Interest
| Keywords:
professional baseball, salaries, wane, wanes, waning
«One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.»
Author: Anna Julia Cooper
(Teacher, Writer)
| About:
Humanity,
Interest,
Passion,
Religion
| Keywords:
hum, human voice, humming, Hums, occasionally, rush, The Hum, voices
«Journalism's ultimate purpose [is] to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.»
Author: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
| About:
Information,
Interest,
Journalism
| Keywords:
inform, special interest, special interests
«Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.»
Author: Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
(First Lady)
| About:
Interest
| Keywords:
democratic, entrance, entrances, Entrance to, entrancing, requirement, the town, totally, town
«Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!»
«Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.»
Author: William McKinley
(Politician)
| About:
Interest,
Peace,
War
| Keywords:
Concord, conflict of interest, eminence, victories
«People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.»
«My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Interest,
Rules
| Keywords:
private interest, Public affairs, rule in
«There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Fear,
Interest
| Keywords:
interest, levers, moving
«One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one»
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