Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

In strategic affairs, clarity and consistency are very important.

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.

I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.

It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes to alter this state of affairs, because I find no consensus of opinion as to which are the superfluous books.

I think reality television, unless it's inspirational, which it very rarely is, I think it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing state of affairs that we're in.

I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.

...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity.

It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.

It's not necessarily that having an affair you get something from the other person that you're not getting from your partner, it's that you created a situation for yourself in which you're unexpressed and so maybe you feel another person allows you to express yourself.

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.

It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

It's simply not true that Donald Trump has no experience in foreign affairs. Hell, two of his foreign affairs resulted in marriages!

It's the same thing he said a few months ago when he refrained from bringing up Bill's [Clinton] affairs and all the women. Even though Hillary [Clinton] was blasting him for being a sexist and so forth, [Donald] Trump refrained from bringing up Bill.

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.

I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.