Affair Quote by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Download Open image “There are no small steps in great affairs.” — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affair Campaigns Contests Political Small steps Steps
There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs. — William H. Hastie Copy Share Image
The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Personal interests have no importance compared to national interests. — Shehbaz Sharif Copy Share Image
The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions. — Arthur Desmond Copy Share Image
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous… — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault,… — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share
Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter - As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human? — Michael Atherton Copy Share
