Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father! — Kenneth More Copy Share Image
Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
I am teaching...It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The FBI background check would show that Rudolph Giuliani had an out-of-control affair with his Press Secretary while he was mayor of… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation. — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her… — Cardinal Mazarin Copy Share Image
The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in… — Gabrielle Giffords Copy Share Image
“I was nervous. How was I to know he loved me? It might be just an affair. Why did we ever say… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
People have outs for numbers of episodes, usually, written into their contract. Some studios will say, "We're going to let Julia Louis-Dreyfus… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after… — Lanford Wilson 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
“It had been easy to decide in favor of love on Bethune Street, in favor of walking proud and naked on the… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
In fiction the narrator is a performance of voice, and it can be any style of voice, but I'm interested in the… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen. — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
I care not who controls a nation's political affairs, so long as I control her currency — Mayer Amschel Rothschild Copy Share Image
My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins. — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
