quotes 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 -
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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 -
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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 ChlumskySource : "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.
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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 -
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I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.
-- Anne EllisSource : Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.67, U of Nebraska Press
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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 -
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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 -
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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 ShahnSource : Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.49, Harvard University Press
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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 BerensonSource : Bernard Berenson (1952). “Rumour and Reflection: 1941:1944”
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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 -
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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 -
Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
-- Bradley Whitford -
The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.
-- Brenda Blethyn -
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My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.
-- Buwei Yang Chao -
A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.
-- Calvin Miller -
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For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.
-- Camille Paglia -
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
-- Cardinal RichelieuSource : "Maxims". "Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu", 1964.
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Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
-- Carl von ClausewitzSource : "The Book of Military Quotations". Book by Peter G. Tsouras (p. 54), 1992.
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A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
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I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.
-- Celia Johnson -
I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.
-- Cesar Romero -
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs
-- Charlie Byrd -
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I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
-- Chita Rivera -
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
-- Chris CleaveSource : Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.154, Simon and Schuster
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Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones.
-- Chris Rock -
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.
-- Claudius Claudianus -
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Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?
-- Cole Porter -
There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.
-- Croesus -
As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as possible and as many activities as possible.
-- Dalai Lama -
Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
-- Dario FoSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.
-- Dashiell Hammett -
Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.
-- David QuammenSource : David Quammen (2012). “The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature”, p.60, Simon and Schuster
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Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.
-- David ShusterSource : "Time for David Gregory to Apologize" by David Shuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2013.
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The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.
-- Dean AchesonSource : Dean Acheson (1967). “Private thoughts on public affairs: a citizen looks at Congress, and a Democrat looks at his party”
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My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.
-- Debra Messing -
Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.
-- Deng Xiaoping -
We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.
-- Derek Prince -
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.
-- Dick Thornburgh -
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Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
-- Dorothy Day -
I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.
-- Drew Barrymore -
There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
-- Edgar Dale -
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
-- Edward Abbey -
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
-- Edward Bond -
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
-- Enoch PowellSource : 1977 Joseph Chamberlain.
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In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.
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Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
-- Eric Hoffer -
I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.
-- Erin Morgenstern -
You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.
-- Ernest Holmes -
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Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
-- Euripides -
It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.
-- Evan Esar -
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
-- Flora Thompson -
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
-- Frances Bean CobainSource : "Frances Bean Cobain Says Dave Grohl Never Creeped on Her" by Christopher R. Weingarten, www.spin.com. April 12, 2012.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
-- Francesco Guicciardini -
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
-- Francesco Guicciardini -
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.
-- Francoise Sagan -
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I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.
-- Frank B. KelloggSource : Katharine Tynan (1922). “The Wandering Years”
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Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.
-- Frank Herbert -
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.
-- Freddy Fender -
There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.
-- Fredrik Bajer -
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There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.
-- Gabriela Sabatini -
For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.
-- Gary Vaynerchuk -
Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You dont even love chocolate. Chocolate is something you have an affair with.
-- Geneen Roth -
Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.
-- George Santayana -
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I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.
-- George Steiner -
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
-- George WashingtonSource : Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
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I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.
-- Gerard Depardieu -
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
-- Giuseppe Verdi -
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
-- Harold MacMillan -
The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
-- Hedy Lamarr -
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.
-- Helen Gahagan Douglas -
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By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
-- Henry ClaySource : Henry Clay (1857). “The speeches of Henry Clay”, p.469
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Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
-- Henry Clay -
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
-- Horace -
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
-- Horatio Nelson -