Top 1200 National Interests Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Bureaucrats serve their own interests first.

If you're Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, if you're in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, you don't get out of your vehicle and go walking around amid the lions and the leopards. You stay in your Land Rover. You stay in your safari van, and you look out the windows or you look out the pop top at these animals. I know by experience how badly that can work out if you violate those guidelines.

I've got a wide variety of interests.

It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to posses the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will, and direct the national force; and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned, in spite of the legions which surround it.

It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity being resolutely imposed on the peripheries of the island by its centre. For many poorer and less literate Britons, Scotland, Wales and England remained more potent rallying calls than Great Britain, except in times of danger from abroad. And even among the politically educated, it was common to think in terms of dual nationalities, not a single national identity.

I don't think TV interests me at all.

Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

I'm not beholden to one party or any special interests.

That's what interests me about film: directing.

I am working for Alaska's best interests.

It's healthy to have interests besides books.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

I have a lot of weird interests, but everything I do is artistic.

My interests are not really with television, per se.

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

I might have been a psychologist. It interests me.

Corporations, like nations, do not have friends. They have interests.

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

Everything always interests me.

Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society.

Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

France has no friends, only interests.

The good is not a category that interests me.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

Anything simple always interests me.

I definitely don't welcome takeover interests.

I will advocate for Kentucky's interests.

Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.

How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?

Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not” “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can” “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity” “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ; we would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can't be tolerated in Syria. I'm talking about the normal reaction of the people. If it's not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn't have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn't make national war.

The only thing that interests me is my team.

I always write about what interests me.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests.

Something that is characteristic of me is the breadth of my interests.

I'm going to put the interests of the nation first.

I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

What interests me principally are points.

Politics definitely interests me.

According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if they used other means of resistance.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

The interests of the state must come first.

The state is captive to vested interests.

I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

Since the Donald Trump election, which has involved this administration making direct attacks on press freedoms, you're actually seeing a certain amount of rallying and reinvigoration by the national press in terms of covering national issues and the presidency. The Washington Post and The New York Times, Mother Jones, ProPublica and a lot of other places, they've actually done some really strong work when confronted with this administration. But the resources that you used to have at state and local level aren't there anymore.

As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.

Clothing interests me, but it's not the endpoint of my interest.

Interests change and diverge; values do not.

I remember only what interests me.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

Creativity should be balanced with commercial interests.