Affair Quotes

1281 Affair quotes by 921 unique authors

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things. — Vannevar Bush
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy. — Giovanni Boccaccio
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are. — Philip Larkin
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold… — Frank Herbert
The call to wage war against America was made because America has spear-headed the crusade against the Islamic nation, sending tens of thousands of its… — Osama bin Laden
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal… — Jefferson Davis
The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before… — Fernando Pessoa
Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be… — Tikhon of Zadonsk
Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble. — Wallace Stevens
Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at… — Confucius
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. — Lionel Blue
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became… — Whitley Strieber
I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her. — William J. Clinton
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. — Ambrose Bierce
There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright] — Jude Law
If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs… — Billy Graham
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have… — Joseph Campbell
Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I… — E. W. Howe
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace… — Arthur Schopenhauer
To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually saying we can… — Bruce Willis
A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween. — Joshua Homme
The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The Witch' , a… — Joshua Homme
There are no small steps in great affairs. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

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