Affair Quotes

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).

Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, "I'm going in! I'm going in!" like a manic cave diver.

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

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

time stood still. I fell into that beloved space that writers fall into, the reason most write, as it's better than drugs or alcohol ... a high without hangover, an affair without pain.

To separate man and woman at school, at work, at meetings, in short, to separate them at life, is the affair of perverted and fusty minds! Where there is separation, there is excessive primitiveness!

It's simply not true that Donald Trump has no experience in foreign affairs. Hell, two of his foreign affairs resulted in marriages!

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.

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

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.

Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.

In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper.

South America goes its own way dramatically in international affairs.

In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.

You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.

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

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

Love is an affair of credulity.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.

Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

None of what we [as country] have done is credited. None of the good works. Our foreign affairs budget, foreign aid budget, none of it is ever thanked.

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

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.

A happy marriage isn't the easiest thing in the world to achieve, but it's much easier to come by than a happy but illicit affair.

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.

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

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

One of the things Donald Trump has criticized Hillary [Clinton] for is discrediting women who said they'd had affairs or been sexually harassed by her husband.