Affair Quotes

1281 Affair quotes by 921 unique authors

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from. — Eric Hoffer
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man… — Eric Hoffer
I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart. — Robert Fulghum
Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much. — John Updike
Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which… — Ralph Ellison
I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs. — Gwyneth Paltrow
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more… — Baruch Spinoza
International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes… — Bernard Berenson
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public… — Henrik Ibsen
Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am simply not interested in the pots and pans affair, and neither can I bring myself to be interested in the same. I have… — Kajol
It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison. — W. Somerset Maugham
My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go… — Benjamin Franklin
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to… — Samuel Johnson
Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself. — Samuel Johnson
We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any… — Richard Le Gallienne
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its… — Wallace Stevens
I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers. — Alexander Pope
Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife. — Euripides
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. — Sophocles
I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise… — Grover Cleveland
As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is… — Robert Jarvik
To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human… — George Steiner

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