It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“You know that when your partner deletes their messages to a past lover after being accused of cheating, then it is likely… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached… — William Golding Copy Share Image
By the time it's considered socially acceptable to start screwing, most of us are sexually constipated, and this is often an incurable… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
It is a common failing-and one that I have myself suffered from-to fall in love with a hypothesis and to be unwilling… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles… — Charles Wagner Copy Share Image
For as long as (the Founding Fathers of this nation) lived and led, they acknowledged the hand of the Almighty in the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
It's part of the strategy to remind people who Hillary Rodham Clinton actually is. If others aren't going to hold her account… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're… — Frankie Manning Copy Share Image
If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
How important are money management and finances in marriage and family affairs? Tremendously. The American Bar Association recently indicated that 89 percent… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I visit T-Mobile call centers. We've got about 18 major call centers in the US, and before I was CEO, I heard… — John J. Legere Copy Share Image
It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
I met a girl, we ate, we drank, had sex, got married, had affairs, broke up - God, what a night that… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them. — Horace Copy Share Image
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and… — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image
It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“a foreign affair juxtaposed with a stateside and domestically approved romantic fancy is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing it will only… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image