Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.

Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Did you have an extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky?

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in a state of crisis and fear the loss of a predictable future - they start to have conversations for the first time about love, sex, monogamy, and marriage. Most couples don't negotiate or don't even converse about any of these things until the crisis of the affair has actually forced them to. Why does it take infidelity to get us talking about the stuff that should be there from the start?

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

For some people, a one-night stand doesn't make any difference in a seven-year love affair. I don't believe the degree of betrayal is always commensurate with the egregiousness of the behavior. They are two separate things.

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.

Good content is the stuff of love affairs.

God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

Having contacts with Russian ambassador or with Russian representatives in this or that field does not mean interference in Americans' affairs - domestic affairs.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.