Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.

Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.

South America goes its own way dramatically in international affairs.

Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Tell me,” Isabelle said.“Who it was. That my father had the affair with.

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.

The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary. (In fact, repetition was encouraged on the theory that, oh well, everyone pretty much sinned just about all the time.)

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.

The love affair you seek is with yourself.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of affairs.

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Theodore Roosevelt is among the most captivating of presidents in our time, but his administration is often underestimated. Roosevelt's successes in domestic and international affairs are so wide-ranging as to appear obvious or inevitable in retrospect.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.

The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don`t know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign affairs very much, unless it comes right to their doorstep. They all learn history through wars. They learn geography through wars.

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

There are no small steps in great affairs.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

There is no justification for having an affair.