Affair Quotes

1281 Affair quotes by 921 unique authors

Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I… — Louis XIV
There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows… — Lemmy Kilmister
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. — Francesco Guicciardini
No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's decree. If something… — Unknown Author
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller… — W. E. B. Du Bois
All of man’s work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which… — Ralph Bunche
Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious… — Peter Bart
I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted… — Alexander Dubcek
It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature… — Jan Morris
I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race… — Sarah Winnemucca
No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own, — Jiang Zemin
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and… — William Dunbar
Good content is the stuff of love affairs. — Tom Webster
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs. — Matt Blunt
Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the greatest stride of… — Christopher Fry
It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique, and we find ourselves doubting the validity… — Unknown Author
However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human… — Eric Hoffer
There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,… — Albert Einstein
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life,… — David Hume
In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. — Edward Abbey
Not only do we mock the Eurovision Song Contest itself, but we lampoon other European countries for taking it so seriously, and they all retaliate… — Unknown Author
No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most… — Ross Douthat
Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an… — Ludwig von Mises

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