Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“While contemplating an affair with a married man, women must ascertain his treatment of his own wife” — BS Murthy Copy Share Image
People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match. — George Foreman Copy Share Image
Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles… — Nichiren Copy Share Image
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“A recognisable picture of a spoilt 22-year-old girl experiencing her first love affair, knowing that she is infatuated with a totally unsuitable… — Roderick Graham Copy Share Image
I'm always dictated to be what I want to do, and I have a love affair with every movie I've done, and… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
There is a principle of human affairs that goes back millennia, which is that you don't look in the mirror. You can… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“ lover , n . Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always being translated from the French.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
In education, it is said that the state must impose schooling on all children, else the parents and communities will neglect it.… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Not everybody here is rich. Not everybody here is independently wealthy. Not everybody here is free from any kind of economic concern.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
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