Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

I'm just delighted to get my hands on him. Paul Nicholls was very good about the whole affair. He said he would like to retain him but felt it was to the advantage of his owners he should be sold at this time.

I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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, 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.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

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

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

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

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 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 strategic affairs, clarity and consistency are very important.

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 affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

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

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.

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 realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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