Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.

In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums.

Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.