Affairs Quotes

954 Affairs quotes by 671 unique authors

Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting — Ambrose Bierce
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs. — Chris Cleave
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own… — Eric Hoffer
The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the… — Cormac McCarthy
It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not… — Melina Marchetta
It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the… — Daniel Webster
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one… — Confucius
There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. — Ulysses S. Grant
The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors --… — Hannah Arendt
There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may… — Michael Shermer
Ramil met Tashi's eyes with a mischievous look. "Now Wife we have a long voyage ahead of us with no interruptions, no affairs of state… — Julia Golding
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that… — Vladimir Nabokov
If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens. — William Makepeace Thackeray
It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly… — Honore de Balzac
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in… — David Nicholls
God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well… — Elisabeth Elliot
I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for… — Stephen King
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by.… — Maeve Brennan
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in… — Douglas Adams
Go home, kiss your wives, hug your children and put your affairs in order, because tomorrow I will burn your neighborhood to the ground. We… — Ilona Andrews

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