Affair Quotes
1281 Affair quotes by 921 unique authors
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Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long…
— Laini Taylor
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Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself body and soul…
— Elizabeth Hoyt
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We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the…
— William Cobbett
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Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political society.…
— Ed Crane
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I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I…
— Lanford Wilson
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I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends,…
— Neil LaBute
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God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.
— Vincent de Paul
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Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way
— Vincent de Paul
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Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.
— Vincent de Paul
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Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us, nothing could happen…
— Vincent de Paul
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...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs
— Vincent de Paul
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If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to…
— Witold Gombrowicz
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Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.
— Tom Clancy
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Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes;…
— Kenneth Anger
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Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.
— Nikki Sixx
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The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows…
— Peter Sloterdijk
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The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there.
— John Dingell
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We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.
— Walter Lippmann
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I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to…
— Diana Dors
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There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.…
— Wayne Dyer
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In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final…
— Eric Hoffer
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