“For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them groan beneath the yoke imposed on them by men who in very large part are strangers to the real interests of the country. We recognize that many others were deceived by fallacious hopes. We blame only the system with its authors and abettors who considered Russia the best field for experimenting with a plan elaborated years ago, and who from there continue to spread it from one of the world to the other.” MenWorldYearsWellsRealCountryInterestPlansFieldsYears AgoBlameUnionsAffectionJewStrangerSpreadRussiaCherishSovietSoviet UnionDeceivedYoke Author:Pope Pius XI
“A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.” PeopleYearsTodayInterestCreativeRightsHeardHundredYears AgoStonesFoundationGermanyJointsAssertionCreative PeoplePioneering Author:Johannes Rau
“I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.” PeopleIfsNeedsYearsFirstsChildrenDoeHas BeensSelfGovernmentLawInterestProtectYears AgoProductionsAmendmentsBobFree SpeechBurnedPornographySelf InterestMarketplaceDissentFirst AmendmentWitchcraft Author:Erica Jong
“...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest.” PeopleKnowsWorldYearsWellsHelpingShowsFormNightInterestBusinessCompanyTalkingCreativeFireDrinkCallingLateSittingCapitalismYears AgoPhonesBarsChanging The WorldWakingShow MePercentagesCivicsDavosCivic Minded Author:Bill Gates
“I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.” PeopleYearsLooksLittlesStillsHappensInterestMistakeCareersPathChangedStrangeYears AgoThings HappenOutlookStrange ThingsCareer PathAnimator Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.” FeelsYearsTwoThreeInterestKnowingGreaterHeroThousandYears AgoPassingPassingsThousand YearsAugustusPompey Book:Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson
“Alejandro Amenábar is a very interesting filmmaker. I had really liked The Others, which was a movie he made with Nicole Kidman a few years ago. He made a very compelling case about how much he wanted me to be in this movie. Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.” YearsMadeSeemsWantedInterestInterestingCasesYears AgoPassionateBarsFilmmakerCompellingVery InterestingAmenNicole Author:Ethan Hawke
“There are wonderful low-interest loans you can take out to own your own solar and cut your energy bills down drastically. You can retrofit your home to become more energy efficient with on-bill financing, where the upgrades you make pay for themselves with the energy savings you generate. Ten years ago, there were only a few electric vehicles on the market, and today there are many, many more coming, and with each year the cost of them comes down.” YearsHomeTodayEnergyInterestPayCuttingWonderfulCostTenLowsYears AgoBillsSavingEfficientVehicleElectricLoanSavingsFinancingElectric Vehicles Author:Mark Ruffalo
“The Iranian government is the government that supplied the arms on the Karin-A to the Palestinian Authority several years ago, they are the world's largest central banker for terrorism, if they thought it was in their interest to give a terrorist group a nuclear weapon to use against America or against Israel, I don't think they'd hesitate.” IfsThinkingWorldGivingYearsUseGovernmentAmericaInterestGroupsArmsAuthorityWeaponsYears AgoIsraelTerrorismNuclearTerroristNuclear WeaponsPalestinianBankersIranianTerrorist Groups Author:John Bolton
“I know a girl who has become a really enthusiastic Christian. I remember meeting her several years ago. She lived in a house near us. She was standing out the front smoking, not apparently interested in religious things, but she did have a respect for spiritual matters when I spoke to her. So as we talked, she expressed an interest, and began to come to church occasionally. Over the years, I have watched her come to Christ, be converted, baptized and changed in wonderful ways. It's a real joy to me when I see things like this.” KnowsWayYearsRealMatterChristianRememberSpiritualJoyGirlHouseInterestChristChurchReligiousWonderfulFrontsChangedYears AgoStandingMeetingsSmokingSpokesStanding OutEnthusiasticBaptizedReal Joy Author:Mark Dever
“I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.” YearsRememberSportsInterestFiveFansHugeYears AgoRadioFive YearsBowlsSuper BowlSports FanTalk RadioMinutiae Author:Norm MacDonald
“The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.” YearsInterestMillionsCircumstancesRainYears AgoPlantHistoricalForestsBroadsContinentsRainy DayFloweringTropicalStrongholds Author:E. O. Wilson
“The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.” WorldWayShouldYearsLooksHas BeensTwoBookDifferentStoriesMightAgeValuesBeliefInterestWrittenThousandYears AgoImportanceHistoricalMeaninglessThousand YearsMight Have BeenDifferent PlaceAcknowledgement Author:James Frey
“Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.” WorldInspirationalYearsMindLittlesLongFunnyInterestParticularYears AgoBoatShoreSailSailingPursesNo MoneyNauticalSailing And The SeaBoats And Sailing Book:Moby-Dick Source: Moby-Dick
“Any outside use of military power would at best furnish a temporary respite from the processes that we see playing out. We know that because we have been through all this before. The "surge" of several years ago was supposed to provide space and time for Iraqi political interests to work out their differences. 30,000 additional U.S. troops failed to lead to any working out of those differences, and the outcome is the mess we see today.” KnowsYearsHas BeensUseTodayPoliticalProcessInterestDifferencesSpaceMilitaryYears AgoIraqWork OutMessOutcomesTemporaryTroopsTime And SpaceMilitary PowerRespite Author:Paul R. Pillar