Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

Love is an affair of credulity.

My every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.

Me and my harp was a love affair from way back.

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Most affairs do die a natural death. Today, you look at your partner's phone to find out the weather, and you find out about a lover. It has never been as easy to cheat as it is today, and it has never been harder to keep a secret.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

My love affairs are just between my office and gym.

My longest love affair: with a book.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

My love for you isn't just my affair, it's yours too. My love says something about you that maybe you yourself don't know.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

My personal feelings on marriage? Samuel Johnson once said that second marriages - although I could probably say this about any marriage - are about the triumph of hope over experience. I think that's true. I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.

Mysterious affair, electricity.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.

None of what we [as country] have done is credited. None of the good works. Our foreign affairs budget, foreign aid budget, none of it is ever thanked.

No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.

One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing.

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

One of the things Donald Trump has criticized Hillary [Clinton] for is discrediting women who said they'd had affairs or been sexually harassed by her husband.

[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.