Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 no justification for having an affair.

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no person knows whether he or she will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is, to do the person good, because for that purpose alone were human beings sent into this life!

There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.

This is a perverted perception of ambassador's job to say that every contact with a Russian ambassador is potentially dangerous and potentially can put in a line of activities interfering in domestic affairs.

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes.

To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.