Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.

Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor has a constitutional and statutory right to participate.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and critical discussion that we approach positions that may provide workable solutions.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

In strategic affairs, clarity and consistency are very important.

In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.

I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

I think reality television, unless it's inspirational, which it very rarely is, I think it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing state of affairs that we're in.

I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes to alter this state of affairs, because I find no consensus of opinion as to which are the superfluous books.

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs

It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.

It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity.

It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.