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Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.

None of what we [as country] have done is credited. None of the good works. Our foreign affairs budget, foreign aid budget, none of it is ever thanked.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing.

One of the things Donald Trump has criticized Hillary [Clinton] for is discrediting women who said they'd had affairs or been sexually harassed by her husband.

[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.

Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

Photography is a love affair with life.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.

Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper.

Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.

Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.

Salvation is a family affair.

Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.