Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

All those fake news having nothing beneath and having no evidence, were nothing else but slander. And that's why we'll continue to suggest to everyone insisting that Russia was interfering in this or that way into domestic affairs of the United States, we will suggest them to read Mr. Putin's lips.

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.

A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.

A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

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

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'.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown

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

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

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

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.