Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“People will think we're having an affair," Kate said. She took a seat next to Bill on the cold slats of treated… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not… — Stephen V Monsma Copy Share Image
The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think the occupation of my poetry is akin to this desire to be many things at once - things that sometimes… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
Scientists themselves readily admit that they do not fully understand the consequences of our many-faceted assault upon the interwoven fabric of atmosphere,… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Rebellion against God results in being cast out of his service. God doesn't run the affairs of the spiritual world or our… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
I watch mainly fiction. The films I like watching are films where you see people change, like with Boyhood. You see a… — Kim Longinotto Copy Share Image
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just… — Julie Christie Copy Share Image
Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being… — Croesus Copy Share Image
I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge. — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state. — George Meade Copy Share Image
For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
My wedding won't be a hush-hush affair. When I get married, everyone will get to know about it... there'll be nothing speculative… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
