Affair Quotes
Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.
These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.
Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.
EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.
Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.
Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're having a feud.
Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give love back - it's a romantic situation.
If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that.
My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.
Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.
Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.
For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.
A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.
My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.
If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.
It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.
My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.
Having contacts with Russian ambassador or with Russian representatives in this or that field does not mean interference in Americans' affairs - domestic affairs.
Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.
In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.
Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.
We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.
Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.
I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.
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.
Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I'm concerned, there's no better love affair.
I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.