Affair Quotes
1281 quotes by 950 authors
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs,…
— Hannah Arendt
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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military…
— Charles Babbage
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
— Honore de Balzac
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I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links…
— Roger Bannister
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you…
— Saint Basil
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels…
— Arnold Bennett
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I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge…
— Aeschylus
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
— Aesop
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I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life…
— Erma Bombeck
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I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
— Erma Bombeck
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be…
— Ray Bradbury
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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
— Andre Breton
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I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that…
— Madeleine Albright
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national…
— Madeleine Albright
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When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But…
— Joseph Campbell
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