Quotes and Sayings About Affair
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The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
-- Alan Cohen -
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
-- Alexander Hamilton -
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
-- Alfred Kazin -
Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
-- Alice Duer Miller -
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
-- Amy Hempel -
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
-- Andre Breton -
I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
-- Anne Carson -
I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.
-- Anne Ellis -
It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.
-- Anthony Daniels -
Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
-- Anthony Eden -
He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
-- Arnold Bennett -
I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.
-- Arnold Palmer -
The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger -
Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.
-- Ben Shahn -
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 -
International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
-- Bernard Berenson -
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.
-- Betty White -
In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.
-- Bill Vaughan -
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.
-- Billy Graham -
If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
-- Bob Dole -
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms
-- Boris Yeltsin