It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine… — Horace Copy Share Image
Banquet: an affair where you eat a lot of food you don't want before talking about something you don't understand to a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three… — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet 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
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
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
Go home, kiss your wives, hug your children and put your affairs in order, because tomorrow I will burn your neighborhood to… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions… We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember… — Isocrates 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
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
Secrecy fuels erotic intensity because it makes you feel like you're doing something that is entirely yours. It gives you the sense… — Esther Perel 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
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
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the… — Cecil Roth Copy Share Image
“Reality has a way of bursting the bubble of illusion, and an affair is one of the biggest illusions that anyone can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events… — Gary Kinnaman Copy Share Image
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord… — Confucius Copy Share Image
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If you wanna be loved, baby, you've got to love me, too. Oh yeah, cause I an't for no one side love… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static… — Joseph Jastrow Copy Share Image
Character Wants Room; Must Not Be Crowded On By Persons, Nor Be Judged From Glimpses Got In The Press Of Affairs, Or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image