Affairs Quotes

954 Affairs quotes by 671 unique authors

Everything ends this way in France â€” everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs â€” everything is a pretext for a good dinner. — Jean Anouilh
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without… — Luigi Pirandello
Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men. — Janet Morris
I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to… — Kinky Friedman
Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel… — Emily Browning
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change… — Stanislaw Ulam
In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse. — Edward Abbey
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other. — Thomas Jefferson
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs — Alexander Hamilton
There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control… — Bobby Sands
The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be… — James Madison
We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold… — Sigmund Freud
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. — Karl Marx
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing — Thucydides
There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things. — Vannevar Bush
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy. — Giovanni Boccaccio
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold… — Frank Herbert
The call to wage war against America was made because America has spear-headed the crusade against the Islamic nation, sending tens of thousands of its… — Osama bin Laden

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