Affairs Quotes

954 Affairs quotes by 671 unique authors

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 peaceâ€”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 usâ€¦ 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 â€” even a long one â€” should take no more than three monthsâ€¦Any longer and â€” 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
Thereâ€™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
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 â€” 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

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