Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others. — Horace Copy Share Image
I'm looking for a passionate affair, not companionship. I'm a man of intensity and youth. — Michael Scott (The Office Copy Share Image
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
It became easy for me to detach myself from the course of life, so that while my hands and mind were engaged… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Sleeping with someone else's man is nothing to brag about. He's playing both of y'all and if you're okay with that you… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer.… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours. — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims.… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Sex can turn into bedroom boredom if you let it, the same position; the same setting; the same person. A man has… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“a highly organized and articulate set of ideas about anything. As in the case of a love affair the fit need not… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has… — Benjamin Disraeli 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
I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry,” he said flippantly, taking her arm and starting to walk back toward the house. “I’m not going to make the… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image