Affair Quotes

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

Did you have an extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky?

Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

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

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.

I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

Good content is the stuff of love affairs.

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.

Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs.

Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

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

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

He was having an illicit affair... with his own mate.

Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory feeds.

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

I would say that I probably had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. I grew up as this kind of insecure kid, you know, kind of making my way. And drinking took all of that away.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.

There is no justification for having an affair.