Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
There are always those two teachers...that are totally having an affair! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white. — Richard Kerry Copy Share Image
“Writing what you know" is about as much fun as having an affair with your spouse.” — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the… — Uthman ibn Affan Copy Share Image
One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“a foreign affair juxtaposed with a stateside and domestically approved romantic fancy is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing it will only… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to react to the current state of affairs through personal action and artistic production. We have been at… — Casey Spooner Copy Share Image
He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm just delighted to get my hands on him. Paul Nicholls was very good about the whole affair. He said he would… — Ginger McCain 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
“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
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils; it changes what they see in… — Peter Lee Copy Share Image
When people performing on the public's behalf feel intimidated, it's a sorry affair. — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men. — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there. — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image