Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.

I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there.

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.

I have a huge relationship with Brazil; it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific martial art like capoeira in Hollywood movies was something important to me.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her.

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.

I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

I'm just delighted to get my hands on him. Paul Nicholls was very good about the whole affair. He said he would like to retain him but felt it was to the advantage of his owners he should be sold at this time.

I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor has a constitutional and statutory right to participate.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and critical discussion that we approach positions that may provide workable solutions.

In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

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

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

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.

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 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.