Affair Quotes
Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.
Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.
There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.
Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.
In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.
I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.
Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.
India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.
Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.
You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.
I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.
When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.
There are reports that French President Francois Hollande had an affair with an actress who is 18 years younger than him. It's pretty serious. Under French law, he could face up to 30 high fives.
It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.
Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.
To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.
I believe it is both unwise and even wrong to interfere in the affairs of other nations. Indeed, if we are honest, we will see that this is one of the reasons for 9-11.
I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.
As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.
The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.
"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.
Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.
The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.
Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair.
The FBI background check would show that Rudolph Giuliani had an out-of-control affair with his Press Secretary while he was mayor of New York.
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.
Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.
Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.
I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.
Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.
The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.
In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.
Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.
Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.