Affair Quotes · Page 22

In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.

— Woodrow Wilson

Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.

— Mason Cooley

My love affair with everywhere was innocent. Why do you care.

— Christopher Mintz Plasse

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

— Jeremy Clarkson

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

— Jonah Goldberg

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

— William Shakespeare

Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.

— Nikki Sixx

Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.

— Martha Washington

Deny that lack has any place or reality in your thought or your affairs and affirm plenty as the only appearance. Praise…

— Charles Fillmore

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.

— Flora Thompson

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

— Jan Morris

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last…

— Confucius

No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each…

— Boman Irani

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the…

— Michael Graves

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity,…

— John Dewey

I think this is one of the problems that we're having in Indigenous affairs. Why we're not confronting the issues that are…

— Warren Mundine

Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence…

— Manny Farber

Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal…

— Noam Chomsky

In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural…

— Anonymous

I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and…

— Henry Clay

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can…

— Ed Crane

It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens…

— Desmond Morris

There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local…

— Douglas Adams

After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering…

— Adel al-Jubeir

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and…

— Maeve Brennan

When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted, those high contracting parties did positively agree that they would not…

— John Taylor

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age.…

— B. C. Forbes

Modern infidelity is different than traditional infidelity and sits on top of the romantic ideal that you find "the one" and that…

— Esther Perel

I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

— Duke of Wellington

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

— Mavis Gallant

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

— Sloane Crosley

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of affairs.

— John Dingell

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

— John Selden

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I think public health is kind of in a very sad state of affairs here in this country.

— Jill Stein