Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“You know that when your partner deletes their messages to a past lover after being accused of cheating, then it is likely… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them. — Horace Copy Share Image
The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and… — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All of man’s work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
I watch so much television. My DVR is full. I love putting my kids to bed, so I can sit on the… — Scott Foley Copy Share Image
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary… — Abdelkader El Djezairi Copy Share Image
My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature… — Matthew Arnold 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
When shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in… — Jane Frances de Chantal Copy Share Image
Frank, open the door! I know you're in there! You got a woman in there? Fine, I am sick of your mess!… — Juanita Copy Share Image
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first… — John Williams Copy Share Image
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
I met a girl, we ate, we drank, had sex, got married, had affairs, broke up - God, what a night that… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I've no time for an affair, and certainly no patience with being linked with one or the other man all the time. — Shamita Shetty Copy Share Image
It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image