Pecuniary Interest Quotes & Sayings

If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face. — Jonathan Littell

I loved it. I just thought I wanted to stay in college forever. I came to New York all by myself; I didn't have any friends there. But it was fine. I felt comfortable. I started thinking, 'Maybe graduate school?' I was really cool with people who were smart, who knew stuff. It's very romantic and stimulating. — Alice Smith

A castle sat in the background, turrets flying a minuscule emblem in the foreground sat a lady, her skirts adorned with picked blossoms "A castle," Helena murmured, "fit for a princess, except that the prince has escaped. — Karen Ranney

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest. — Abraham Lincoln

But pecuniary interest is clearly not in your nature. How quaint. I have written about people who don't care for money, but I never expected to meet one. Therefor I conclude that the difficulty concerns integrity. People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appauling obsession with personal integrity. - Vida Winter — Diane Setterfield

Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so. — John Kenneth Galbraith

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities ... it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. — G.K. Chesterton

No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with. — Jay Baruchel

Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people. — Sylvester Stallone

The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have therefore more to buy and more to sell. Hence the free states have a direct pecuniary interest in the civil freedom of all the other states. Commerce between free and slave states is not reciprocal or equal. — Lysander Spooner

We were pretty normal - suburban kids having a good time playing in bands. We were silly. We weren't dark, intense, humorless people. Humor was one of the connecting forces among us. It was more like camaraderie. — David Pajo

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest. — John Stuart Mill

The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it — David Dickinson

I'd rather die riding 95 than live a life full of nothing but filthy lies. — Mitch Lucker

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved. — Thomas B. Macaulay