Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
[A] good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat.,… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
It is cruel and insensitive to interpret an affair as a symptom of sickness in the relationship, as it leaves the 'cheated-on'… — Dossie Easton Copy Share Image
There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God… — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
“This was the affair which had ended quietly and decently, without fuss or scenes or hysteria. When you were nineteen, and it… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Geoffrey's personal style was very different from mine. He has a lovely speaking voice, a quiet speaking voice. But at Cabinet we… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“a foreign affair juxtaposed with a stateside and domestically approved romantic fancy is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing it will only… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the… — Uthman ibn Affan Copy Share Image
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Except the time a weak spot would appear in this affair. We'd be mending it back together with tender loving care. — Regina Belle Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is going to find common ground with the Republicans on foreign and military affairs. They both want to enhance the… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Let's always be having an affair. Wherever we meet, however many times a year - let it always be an affair.” — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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