Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

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

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

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.

Good content is the stuff of love 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man

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

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.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

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 distrust all dead and mechanical formulas for expressing anything connected with human affairs and human personalities. Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom.

I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.

I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that.

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is not arguable - in foreign affairs.

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there.

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

I have a huge relationship with Brazil; it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific martial art like capoeira in Hollywood movies was something important to me.

i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.