Affair Quotes · Page 13

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

— Maurice Ravel

Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

— Loretta Chase

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

— Anna Chlumsky

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

— Susan Sontag

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

— Alfred Kazin

Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Marriage is too important to be treated like a love affair

— Richard Steele Sr

“Is kissing you generally considered a joyful affair?" -”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build…

— John Adams

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I'm concerned,…

— Gloria Gaynor

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not…

— Hamid Karzai

You are hurting people. you are hurting yourself. I care about myself and I feel more than other people.

— Jody Bon

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful…

— Phyllis McGinley

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

— Richard Lugar

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The call to wage war against America was made because America has spear-headed the crusade against the Islamic nation, sending tens of…

— Osama bin Laden

So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an…

— Dennis Bergkamp

I think every doctor should know the shocking state of affairs...We discovered they (the FDA) failed to effectively regulate the large manufacturers…

— Edward V. Long

Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure…

— Paul Feyerabend

If you can't keep a promise to your family, can't keep a promise to your wife, you're having an affair, you're lying…

— Sean Hannity

There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing…

— Edmund Burke

Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to…

— Kristin Cashore

People had tell me the most personal things. People I'd never met before would say thing like "Oh, that was the summer…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I have talked to more people who are in politics who have said to me, "[House of Cards] is closer than you…

— Kevin Spacey

I was lucky enough to date my first love for five years. We had a very romantic, very dramatic teenage love affair.…

— Amma Asante

Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For…

— David Levithan

World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of…

— Joseph Stalin

In the morning was again distressed as soon as I waked, hearing much talk about the world and the things of it.…

— David Brainerd

The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired…

— John Adams

We need a leader who has a sense of balance, an understanding of the ebb and flow of history and a sense…

— John F. Kerry

We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow…

— Helen Keller

“The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Someone once told me years ago that there was nothing so dead as a warmed-over love affair.

— Frederic Tuten

Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

— William C. Oates

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

— John Dewey

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.

— Hermione Lee

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

— Jude Law

“For surely there is a certain level of ignorance that is necessary at the start of a love affair.”

— Christopher Grau