Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in a state of crisis and fear the loss of a predictable future - they start to have conversations for the first time about love, sex, monogamy, and marriage. Most couples don't negotiate or don't even converse about any of these things until the crisis of the affair has actually forced them to. Why does it take infidelity to get us talking about the stuff that should be there from the start?

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

For some people, a one-night stand doesn't make any difference in a seven-year love affair. I don't believe the degree of betrayal is always commensurate with the egregiousness of the behavior. They are two separate things.

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.

Good content is the stuff of love affairs.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.

Having contacts with Russian ambassador or with Russian representatives in this or that field does not mean interference in Americans' affairs - domestic affairs.

Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.

Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.

Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

I am asked often about Abraham Lincoln's mistakes and faults; he certainly made some mistakes. I have chapter in President Lincoln about the Powhatan affair that was a royal screw-up in the early days - right alongside the Sumter affair. Lincoln signed letters he should not signed, and the ship was sent to two places at one under two captains etc. Fortunately, no great harm. Lincoln took the blame and did not do anything like that again.

I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.

I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have such great cooks in the family that I would rather manage the other affairs and leave the kitchen to those who know it best.

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.

I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called "angry." If I had an affair with my husband's best friend and written about that experience, I could see the anger. But I'm not doing that.

I believe it is both unwise and even wrong to interfere in the affairs of other nations. Indeed, if we are honest, we will see that this is one of the reasons for 9-11.