Affair Quotes

1281 Affair quotes by 921 unique authors

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it… — Ben Shahn
In these home affairs things I think occasionally it's the duty of politicians on both sides to turn round to the tabloids and right-wing newspapers… — Kenneth Clarke
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. — Claudius Claudianus
The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of… — Charles A. Beard
When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful… — Richard M. Nixon
A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic… — Chanakya
I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my esteem and affection… — Romulus Linney
Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art... — Michael Kimmelman
A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically. — Robert Genn
Each child represents either a potential addition to the protective capacity and enlightened citizenship of the nation or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a… — Theodore Roosevelt
How many hearts with warm, red blood in them are beating under cover of the woods, and how many teeth and eyes are shining? A… — John Muir
No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike;… — Theodore Roosevelt
From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality… — Theodore Roosevelt
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. — Sarah Orne Jewett
Genius is mainly an affair of energy. — Matthew Arnold
A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been living upon the… — Marcus Garvey
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. — Henry Clay
I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn’t realize until many years later what I had truly… — Arnold Palmer
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may… — Matthew Arnold
A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares… — Theodore Roosevelt
I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair. — Arnold Palmer
Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or… — Norman Vincent Peale
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study… — Matthew Arnold
The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a world of poverty,… — Chrissie Wellington

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