Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

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

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is no master and their servant manages its affairs. How can there be no mischief?

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.

We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the only way you can deal with it, I suppose, is to make fun of it. I would rather watch Comedy Central for the news than I'd like to watch any other program on television. Maybe that shows you the state of affairs.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.

We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.

When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it won't be frightening even though it will be a shock.

When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.

When John was with me, it was total commitment. Whatever he did outside our relationship didn't seem very important. We were together such a lot of the time that whatever other affairs he had once we met couldn't have amounted to much because I was with him most of the time. He kept me in Liverpool as late as I dared stay.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?

Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.

Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.

Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

You're not the same after, say, an incredible love affair that went very well or a love affair that went bad. Or something that happens to your health, or something that happened to somebody else's health, that is close to you. Or something that happens professionally.

Ah! It is you again. You enter in this house Not as a kid in love, but as a husband Courageous, harsh and in control. The calm before the storm is fearful to my soul. You ask me what it is that I have done of late With given unto me forever love and fate. I have betrayed you. And this to repeat -- Oh, if you could one moment tire of it! The killer's sleep is haunted, dead man said, Death's angel thus awaits me at deathbed. Forgive me now. Lord teaches to forgive. In burning agony my flesh does live, And already the spirit gently sleeps, A garden I recall, tender with autumn leaves And cries of cranes, and the black fields around. How sweet it would be with you underground!

Ahh, love, why is it so easy to let you in, but so difficult to let you out? Why couldn’t you subsist only two-sided?

A lot of women lack the sensuality (NOT sexuality) it takes to be in a soul-fulfilling relationship. Even if they do everything 'right', it's still not enough because no one has ever told them that for a relationship to flourish, it needs an affair. However, the affair needs to be with your own self... your inner soul.

A man's love for a woman is not defined by his availability in bed, but by every ingredient he adds to improve the taste of the relationship.

A man who lives with his wife is safer and more venerable than a man who lives with a tramp.