Affairs Quotes

954 Affairs quotes by 671 unique authors

Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the claim that the… — Susan Sontag
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only… — Thomas Szasz
Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold… — Christopher Paolini
Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to… — Henry Miller
Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing… — Harold B. Lee
The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but… — Albert Camus
Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend. — Amy Sedaris
No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every… — George Washington
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their… — Alexander Hamilton
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on… — W. Somerset Maugham
To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually… — Miguel de Cervantes
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in… — Henry David Thoreau
Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing… — Tom Waits
Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but… — Neil Gaiman
If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle — John Adams
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat… — Baruch Spinoza
...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make… — D.E. Stevenson
The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day,… — Milan Kundera
...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life. — Dashiell Hammett
In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that, whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a… — Theodore Roosevelt
Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the… — Thomas Jefferson
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact… — Aleister Crowley
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world… — William Ralph Inge
One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'-… — E. M. Forster

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