Affair Quotes · Page 19

He was having an illicit affair... with his own mate.

— J.R. Ward

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

— Lucien Bouchard

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

— Billy Graham

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

— Stephen King

Promotions are a costly affair and most producers shy away from budgeting for that purpose.

— Rockline Venkatesh

My marriage was a bit of a low-key affair due to COVID-19, but things went smoothly.

— Nithiin

There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

— Learned Hand

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

— Benito Mussolini

I didn't say [Steve Scalise] was fanatically pro-Israel. I said I wouldn't vote for because he supports state of Israel which has…

— David Duke

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

— Karl Marx

Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you…

— Tikhon of Zadonsk

Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

— Honore de Balzac

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right…

— Dev Anand

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them,…

— Anonymous

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

— Allan Massie

This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he…

— Chanakya

'We the People' established the Constitution. Did we really do so to somehow keep ourselves out of the decision making. Are we…

— Paul Jacob

Presidential campaign getting kind of ugly, did you hear about this? Yesterday, a 27-year-old woman came for to deny rumors that she…

— Conan O'Brien

There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up…

— Pankaj Mishra

I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it…

— Steve Antin

I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I…

— Jami Attenberg

How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes…

— John Muir

A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs…

— Frosty Wooldridge

Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of…

— B. C. Forbes

How is it possible for one’s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears…

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is…

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled…

— Upton Sinclair

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking;…

— Anonymous

Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue.…

— George Bodenheimer

All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

— Al McGuire

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“If I’d known this was going to be a black-tie affair, I would have put on underwear.”

— T.J. Klune

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

— Charlie Byrd

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

— James McGreevey

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

— Calvin Coolidge

I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man

— Lena Dunham

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

— Horace