Affair Quotes

1281 Affair quotes by 921 unique authors

Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for… — Graham Greene
It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It… — Thomas Jefferson
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count… — Henry David Thoreau
It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put… — Michel de Montaigne
In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty… — Richard P. Feynman
Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate… — Bill Watterson
I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs.… — Rudyard Kipling
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs… — Benjamin Franklin
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are… — James Madison
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people… — Neil Gaiman
You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir. — P.G. Wodehouse
We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to… — George Washington
So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in… — John Muir
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which… — Robert E. Lee
When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you… — Jane Austen
Salvation is a family affair. — Bruce R. McConkie
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world… — Florence Nightingale
The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true… — Sarah Orne Jewett
No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note. — Sloane Crosley
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. — Confucius
Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair. — Dorothy Day

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