Top 1200 National Interests Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests.

It's in our interests that the euro is a successful, strong currency.

I think the gap between the rich and the poor is a dangerous phenomenon in Russia and it needs the attention of the state. The only reasonable way to correct the situation today is not to go after big businesses, but to give breathing room to medium and small businesses. That means protecting citizens and small entrepreneurs from arbitrary rule and from corruption. It means investing the revenues from the national natural resources into the national infrastructure, education and health care. And we must learn to do so without shameful theft and embezzlement.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.

Material interests are not the only guiding light.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus the phenomena of “national economy” . . . are, rather, the results of all the innumerable individual economic efforts in the nation and . . . must also be theoretically interpreted in this light. . . .Whoever wants to understand theoretically the phenomena of “national economy” . . . must for this reason attempt to go back to their true elements, to the singular economies in the nation, and to investigate the laws by which the former are built up from the latter.

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

There was a very important superintendent of Yellowstone, a man who was involved in the founding of the National Park Service itself, Horace Albright. And he became superintendent, which is the boss of Yellowstone Park, in 1919 - from 1919 to 1929. Later, he was director of the park service itself. Albright embraced the idea that in order for the national parks - and Yellowstone in particular - to have support from the American people and from politicians, there needed to be wildlife as spectacle.

A healthy corporation acts on the interests of its stakeholders and customers.

It's a daunting task to create something that interests audiences.

At the end of the day, it's about the best interests of the children.

We have to slowly, carefully, and thoughtfully align all of our interests.

I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

I favor a form of cosmopolitanism that takes nations very seriously, particularly because of the role of national law in sustaining or, unfortunately, undermining human rights. Some cosmopolitans take the metaphor of global citizenship - the etymology of the word, after all, just comes from a Greek phrase meaning citizen of the world - to rule out taking national citizenship seriously. I think that's a big mistake. Why can't I be loyal to America and to humanity? After all, I can be loyal to America and to New York city!

Writing is definitely something that interests me a lot.

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

Jihadists are acting against the interests of every single country.

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. Streets and highways carry the name of the Führer. Settlements today are not isolated communities, but rather parts of greater city-construction plans. Every work site must be properly located within its neighborhood and surrounding setting (i.e., the natural world).

Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The intern who answered the phone suggested that I might be a great candidate for the Travel and Training fund, and she sent me an application form. I applied for a grant. With the funds I was awarded, I bought a new pair of skates and a plane ticket to the 1988 National Championships, where I achieved my highest national finish. Four years later, I won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games.

For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal.

Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.

Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

I have business interests in Dubai, Monaco and all over the world.

The essentials of leadership are all about the use of one's talent in the interests of society.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.

Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.

Look at me, the Front National got many more votes than the Alternative for Germany. Marine Le Pen ended up with 34 percent of the vote, 34 percent! I defended Europe, an open society and all my values. The Front National has been significantly weakened. In the debates, you don't hear anything from them anymore - because we engaged them in battle. Now is the time to be bold! The only answer to the Alternative for Germany is courage and ambition.

I have certain strong interests that fill my life as well

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

I remember getting advice like, "Oh, do what interests you. Don't worry about tomorrow, live for today," kind of thing. And to a degree, you've got to do that, you've got to follow your passions. You've got to follow your dreams, but you also have to have a plan. You can't just say I'm going to do what interests me today and I'm not going to worry about tomorrow, that doesn't work. And anyone who's tried that I think quickly finds that out. Think about what turns you on, what do you dream about? But along with that, make a plan and work hard to make it happen.

What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.

My idea was always to start with a small press and then move up to a national press. I had those goals for my career from the time I was a very young woman. I wanted to win a local award, then I wanted a state or national award. Small press, big press. Some women fantasize about their weddings, their husbands, and children. I fantasized about what I wanted to accomplish with my books.

Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights. She has passed a host of bills in many different areas, both national and global, with both national and global importance for women, and she's on a Chair of Finance Committee so essentially in this economic crisis, we thought she would be perfect.

There is nothing magic. We own 100-percent interests of venues around the world and partial interests of ventures around the world. We own 100-percent sports teams and we own partial sports teams. There's no magic here.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

I have certain strong interests that fill my life as well.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

I try to take my interests and make them my work.

Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.

People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species.

If children have interests, then education happens.

People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They want to play on Broadway. Those that want to play traditional jazz and have no interests in the ideas of improvisation. So in spit of the fact that there are fifty violin players, you might only narrow it down to ten and within those ten, there might only be three who have the right kind of background and credentials to deal with what you need to deal with. Everybody's got their own special thing that they are after and a lot of times you don't have time to be training people.

The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

When you pay for stuff, it has more of your interests in heart.

We are a regional party, and our interests are for the people of Odisha.