Affair Quotes

1281 Affair quotes by 921 unique authors

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly… — Simon Schama
A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be… — Calvin Miller
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion has become a… — Gary Zukav
Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the… — Sigourney Weaver
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. — Jan Morris
The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption… — Dorothy E. Denning
I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men. — Tom Hornbein
For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of… — Luke Davies
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to… — Carolyn Heilbrun
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not… — John Sergeant Wise
Putting is a very personal affair. — Greg Norman
Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. — Alan Watts
Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he does, he's utterly… — Robert J. Sawyer
The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I… — Mark Twain
For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with… — Gregory of Nyssa
...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable… — Gregory Palamas
Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes. — Israel Shenker
To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is… — H.G. Wells
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,… — Thomas Jefferson
A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life. — Jaggi Vasudev
I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man. — James McGreevey
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. — Harold MacMillan
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle,… — Arnold Bennett
The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend?… — Benjamin Franklin
Biblical righteousness is more than a private and personal affair; it includes social righteousness as well....Thus Christians are committed to hunger for righteousness in the… — John Stott

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