My birthday is generally a very quiet affair.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat…

— Simon Schama

Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is…

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,…

— Walter Gropius

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

— Andy Warhol

For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it…

— Vita Sackville-West

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of…

— Joseph Brodsky

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

— Jean Cocteau

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

— Umberto Eco

My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.

— Billy Graham

In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed…

— Madeleine Albright

Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal…

— Vladimir Putin

The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter…

— Michael Atherton

“I ripped the sketch from the wall. "Liar." Edward looked more ravaged than usual. "That is a terrible word, coming from you." "Yup." "And…

— Melissa Jensen

For some people, a one-night stand doesn't make any difference in a seven-year love affair. I don't believe the degree of betrayal is always…

— Esther Perel

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe…

— Kurt Vonnegut