“When one has so many different people with different opinions to deal with in a new affair,” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril. — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory… — James R. Heath Copy Share Image
There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things. — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA).… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Anyway, the way political history is passed down is influenced and spoiled by the closeness of the writers to the political figures… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its… — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God… — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us… — Michael Klare Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Marriage is a very strange thing. It’s a very public institution, it’s meant to tell the world that two people are going… — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share Image
Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course. — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, "I'm… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in… — John Locke Copy Share Image
You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happiness or misery in… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth —… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair,… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God. — Mark Shriver Copy Share Image