Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When I say, "Be my lover", I don't mean, "Let's have an affair." I don't mean "Sleep with me." I don't mean,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of… — Hannah Arendt 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
There can be no justification to admit, in any way, the use of armed forced to intervene in the internal affairs of… — Nicolae Ceausescu Copy Share Image
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
This attitude of how society views women as chattel - that's the biggest thing to overcome. When I first started a stake… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in… — Arnold Leese Copy Share Image
Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them - preferring, instead, the comfort and child-handling… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There was a time-a lonely, lonely time-when salads were a pale and limp affair, relegated to the side of your plate, practically… — Isa Chandra Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There… — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair? — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
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