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And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

Any blaming that Russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the United States is slander. And it has no evidence at all.

A newspaper is an adviser who does not require to be sought, but who comes of his own accord, and talks to you briefly every day of the common wealth, without distracting you from your private affairs.

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as possible and as many activities as possible.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.

Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce the men. I have never searched, and I have always found under my hand the men who have served me, and for the most part I have been well served.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're having a feud.

Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.

But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?

Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You dont even love chocolate. Chocolate is something you have an affair with.

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.

Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

Did you have an extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky?

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.