Affairs Quotes

954 Affairs quotes by 671 unique authors

If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to… — Simon Pegg
That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to… — B.F. Skinner
To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to… — Mitch Albom
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn… — Ambrose Bierce
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality… — Iain Pears
The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of… — Barack Obama
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any… — Dale Carnegie
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. — Robertson Davies
We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs. — William Boyd
Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves. — Benjamin Constant
One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War… — Howard Zinn
You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs. — Charles Dickens
In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if… — David Hume
Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of… — Charles Dickens
You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear… — Ann Brashares
For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives… — Brady Udall
Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their… — Kristin Cashore
So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying? — Steven Moffat
Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as… — Dallas Willard
And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but… — Kurt Vonnegut

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