Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
We are in a world of irredeemable paper money - a state of affairs unprecedented in history. — John Exter Copy Share Image
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“When one has so many different people with different opinions to deal with in a new affair,” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. — George Washington Copy Share Image
We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you… — Confucius Copy Share Image
If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The U.S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs... and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler.… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You'll stay," he said firmly. "But-" He crossed his arms. "Do I look like a man in the mood to be argued… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I’m not going to deny that I want to fuck you. I can’t promise a future or that I’ll be some sniveling… — D.L. Hess Copy Share Image
Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
