Affairs Quotes

954 Affairs quotes by 671 unique authors

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
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

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