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 Copy Share Image
Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record. — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
In those days contests were extremely rough and frequently cost the participants their lives. Thus, whenever I sallied forth to take part… — Yokoyama Sakujiro Copy Share Image
No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of… — Chokwe Lumumba Copy Share Image
Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase… — Bruce McCall Copy Share Image
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I'm not proud of having been married -I've had five affairs, all of them real wingdings. I've enjoyed every goddamned minute of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground. The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
