Best 605 quotes in «affair quotes» category

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes.

Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]

This is a perverted perception of ambassador's job to say that every contact with a Russian ambassador is potentially dangerous and potentially can put in a line of activities interfering in domestic affairs.

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.

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is no master and their servant manages its affairs. How can there be no mischief?

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

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.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.

We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the only way you can deal with it, I suppose, is to make fun of it. I would rather watch Comedy Central for the news than I'd like to watch any other program on television. Maybe that shows you the state of affairs.

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.

Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.

When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it won't be frightening even though it will be a shock.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

When John was with me, it was total commitment. Whatever he did outside our relationship didn't seem very important. We were together such a lot of the time that whatever other affairs he had once we met couldn't have amounted to much because I was with him most of the time. He kept me in Liverpool as late as I dared stay.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?

Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.

Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.

Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.