Affair Quotes

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

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.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human 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.

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

I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.

Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.

An Internet rumor claims that John Kerry had an affair with a young woman. When asked if this was similar to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, a spokesman said 'Close, but no cigar.'

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.

It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.

A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.

That's been my forever love affair - Mexican food. But yeah it has to be something savory or cheesy. I'm not tempted by sweets.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

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

I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.

I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

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.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

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.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

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.

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

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

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.

I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.