Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

Most affairs do die a natural death. Today, you look at your partner's phone to find out the weather, and you find out about a lover. It has never been as easy to cheat as it is today, and it has never been harder to keep a secret.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

My every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.

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 love affairs are just between my office and gym.

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

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.

Mysterious affair, electricity.

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

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 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.

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 affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

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.

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

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Photography is a love affair with life.

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.

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.

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

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

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