Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

My love affairs are just between my office and gym.

My love for you isn't just my affair, it's yours too. My love says something about you that maybe you yourself don't know.

My longest love affair: with a book.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

My personal feelings on marriage? Samuel Johnson once said that second marriages - although I could probably say this about any marriage - are about the triumph of hope over experience. I think that's true. I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

Mysterious affair, electricity.

My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative about my wedding.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

[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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Photography is a love affair with life.

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.

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.

Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.