Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.

I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.

I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

I was unfaithful, I had affairs, I cheated.

I watch mainly fiction. The films I like watching are films where you see people change, like with Boyhood. You see a moment in someone's life where it's a breakthrough. For me, the breakthrough in Boyhood is that amazing moment right at the end when he finds somebody he can feel relaxed with, and who will maybe be a friend for the rest of his life. I like that it doesn't end in a love affair or marriage. It just ends in, "Wow, I found people I can relate to for the first people in my life. These people accept me, I like them.

I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair.

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

Love is an affair of credulity.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Me and my harp was a love affair from way back.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

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.

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

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

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

My love affairs are just between my office and gym.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.