Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right. — Pam Gems Copy Share Image
In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do. — Sandy Berger Copy Share Image
The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events… — Gary Kinnaman Copy Share Image
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet Copy Share Image
Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three… — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Since money is energy, our financial affairs tend to reflect how our life energy is moving. When your creative energy is flowing… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my… — Romulus Linney Copy Share Image
Such is man's nature, that he is very inactive and lazy unless he is influenced by some affection, either love or hatred,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but,… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
Dean Bartoli Smith's Never Easy, Never Pretty will help satisfy the hunger of so many Baltimore Ravens fans wishing to re-live the… — Michael Olesker Copy Share Image
I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
Marriage is a very strange thing. It’s a very public institution, it’s meant to tell the world that two people are going… — Shashi Deshpande Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us… — Michael Klare Copy Share Image
“A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When one has so many different people with different opinions to deal with in a new affair,” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? — Virginia Woolf 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
I'm looking for a passionate affair, not companionship. I'm a man of intensity and youth. — Michael Scott (The Office Copy Share Image