When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three… — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events… — Gary Kinnaman Copy Share Image
The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man.… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique, and we find ourselves… — Philip D. Reed 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
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue.… — George Bodenheimer Copy Share Image
Happiness is yours in the here and now. The painful states of anxiety and loneliness are abolished permanently. Financial affairs are not… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Through the plan of prayer, God actually is inviting redeemed man into full partnership with Him; not in making the divine decisions,… — Paul Billheimer Copy Share Image
“Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole… — James Kern Feibleman Copy Share Image
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet Copy Share Image
Banquet: an affair where you eat a lot of food you don't want before talking about something you don't understand to a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine… — Horace Copy Share Image
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
The Gulf States are extraordinarily suspicious of Iran for good reason. They view Iran as meddling in their affairs. They have seen… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
You knew he was married with 2 kids but you still had an affair with him…..how can you be such a homewrecking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman. — Mary Brave Bird Copy Share Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
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