Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love. — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
My love affair with everywhere was innocent. Why do you care. — Christopher Mintz Plasse Copy Share Image
I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable. — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever. — Augusta Stowe-Gullen Copy Share Image
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman. — Mary Brave Bird Copy Share Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
But the frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
“He eyed me curiously, his eyes fluttering over my breasts, and I swallowed, knowing he was thinking things he shouldn't. His tongue… — Mercy Cortez Copy Share Image
Our concern is to help people counter the efforts of those who seek to "regiment the public mind every bit as much… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“It’s funny, how for an entire lifetime we keep thinking ‘How’ will our life-partner look like, how will he be? How will… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living. Is goodness individual… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
