#interests

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. ↗

— August Strindberg

#born #conventions #different #different points #exist

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. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#escape #how #interests #only #reality

A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#concerns #earth #economic #feet #harden

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues. ↗

— Saad Hariri

#bound #countries #country #i #i believe

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. ↗

— Robert Heilbroner

#alone #capitalism #class #cure #failing

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#athlete #carl #goals #growing #i

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine. ↗

— Hilary Rosen

#cutting edge #different #doing #edge #everything

I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#certainly #contribute #good #good government #government

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#checked #devised #efficiently #government #instead

I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#berlin #both #burden #confident #decision