Affair Quotes

1281 Affair quotes by 921 unique authors

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. — Karl Kraus
If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running… — Charles Krauthammer
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history. — Charles Krauthammer
The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer. — Hedy Lamarr
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. — Alphonse de Lamartine
I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I… — Hugh Laurie
The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could've done with the character.… — Denis Leary
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. — Robert E. Lee
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall… — Abraham Lincoln
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. — Walter Lippmann
I have no interest in managing my financial affairs. — Ken Livingstone
I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry… — Ian MacKaye
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy… — James Madison
There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot… — Norman Mailer
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. — W. Somerset Maugham
The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken. — Nelson Mandela
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. — Thomas Mann
I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really… — James McAvoy
Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November. — James McGreevey
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. — Mignon McLaughlin
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension… — Marshall McLuhan
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable… — Marshall McLuhan
It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't… — Golda Meir
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast… — Herman Melville

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