Affair Quotes

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

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.

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

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

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

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.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

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.

To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

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

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.

Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

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.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

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.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.