Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife. — Euripides Copy Share Image
There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs. — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from. — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
“The affair is over, but at least things have gone somewhere, if only into oblivion. And maybe oblivion is what I wanted… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change. — Frank Popoff Copy Share Image
If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When you expect others to make the first move. And they in turn expect you to make the first move.The move is… — Noble Yabi Copy Share Image
I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
There are many options in a marriage. If the couple has been together for a certain amount of time and has a… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions,… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New]… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If the most important revolutionary part of the George W. Bush Doctrine is that states that harbor terrorists are terrorist states, what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase… — Bruce McCall Copy Share Image
“It had been easy to decide in favor of love on Bethune Street, in favor of walking proud and naked on the… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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