Encounters Quote by Arnold J. Toynbee

I'm always reading books, I'm always having encounters, I'm always taking trips. Whatever it is you come up with about how you got started,…

— Nick Laird

The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

In human affairs, we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged, we keep in order, what has gone amiss we improve or…

— Martin Luther

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

— Robert Fulghum

“It is an adherent condition of human affairs that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others can make it safe or…

— John Stuart Mill

“For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.”

— Victor Hugo

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating…

— Eric Hoffer

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

— Frank B. Kellogg

Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.

— Zicheng Hong

“Lying is such a central characteristic of life that better understanding of it is relevant to almost all human affairs.”

— Paul Ekman

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

— Peter Senge

In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can…

— P. G. Wodehouse

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

— Gavin Extence

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster