Affairs Quotes

954 Affairs quotes by 671 unique authors

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? — Virginia Woolf
Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and… — Soren Kierkegaard
The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes… — Lorrie Moore
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
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
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
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
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. — Confucius
Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love. — William Shakespeare
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. — Albert Einstein
Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he… — Alexandre Dumas
When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son… — Shane Claiborne

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