Affair Quotes

1281 Affair quotes by 921 unique authors

Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start… — Mark Batterson
The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed… — Eugene Wigner
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better… — Henry Ward Beecher
Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your… — Henry David Thoreau
We're worn into grooves by Time-by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each… — Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of… — Ambrose Bierce
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but… — Benjamin Franklin
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day. — Ambrose Bierce
Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness… — Albert Einstein
Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted. — Wilson Mizner
If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School. — Frank Sinatra
The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature. — Dorothy Parker
You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. — Norbert of Xanten
There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs. — William H. Hastie
PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and… — Ambrose Bierce
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of… — Tom Peters
Wealth is the sinews of affairs. — Wilfred Bion
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual. — Robert Henri
A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in… — Hamid Karzai
There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate. — Croesus
How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life. We consider… — Watchman Nee
Somehow it must be made plain that the lawyer's moral judgment is not for hire, that there are occasions when the lawyer . . .… — Harry Jones
The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every form of authority… — Noam Chomsky
I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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