Top 100 Quotes About Affairs
#1. I was a public affairs officer. I worked with the media, but I didn't just stay at my desk. I assisted in military duties, travelled around Anbar province, hung out with a wide variety of Marines.
Phil Klay
#2. T happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into another. Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage, and in accepting a less evil as a good.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#3. The reason many ... close their eyes while praying is to shut out the affairs of the world so that their minds can be completely concentrated on God ... it certainly lends itself to the attitude of prayer.
Billy Graham
#4. The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court ... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.
William O. Douglas
#5. All action is an attempt to exchange a less satisfactory state of affairs for a more satisfactory one.
Murray Rothbard
#6. I would rather let affairs break their neck than twist my faith for the sake of them.
Michel De Montaigne
#7. Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
Chris Cleave
#9. The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
Adam Smith
#10. Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.
Gough Whitlam
#11. Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Plautus
#12. We should start using the mind as a tool, he argues, instead of letting the mind use us, which is the normal state of affairs. When Descartes said 'I think, therefore I am,' he had not discovered 'the most fundamental truth', Tolle insists; instead, he had given expression to 'the most basic error'.
Oliver Burkeman
#13. The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes
#14. They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
Carl Hubbell
#15. A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
Socrates
#17. On 'State of Affairs,' we're going after some names that you wouldn't think would traditionally do TV. A show that shoots in Los Angeles is such a rare bird in hand that I think we're gonna have the pick of the litter.
Joe Carnahan
#18. Older sisters are far more powerful than vampires. Not even garlic or a crucifix will keep us away when we're determined to meddle in your affairs.
Teresa Medeiros
#19. Ours is the first era in which it has been possible for people of different
nations to conduct their affairs in a friendly and understanding manner. In the old days, peoples spent their lives fearing and even hating one another because of ignorance on all sides.
Albert Einstein
#20. Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
Henrik Ibsen
#21. Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.
Fran Lebowitz
#22. Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way
Vincent De Paul
#23. A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.
H.L. Mencken
#24. For out of doubt
In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself
That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs
Incipient motions are diffused.
Lucretius
#25. Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.
Robert Gilpin
#26. The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs.
George Orwell
#27. Longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: "that God governs in the affairs of man." And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?
Peter Marshall
#28. By the time I could see again, the captain had announced the final descent into Seattle. Couldn't they find a less ominous phrase for it? I don't like flying as it is, even without the implication that before landing I might want to have all my worldly and spiritual affairs in order.
C.E. Murphy
#29. Who understands quickly, pursues objects with judgment, listens patiently,
Wastes not breathe on others affairs; possess foremost mark of wisdom truly.
[25] - 33 Mahatma Vidur
Munindra Misra
#30. When spreading vicious and damaging gossip about the private affairs of others, one must always use proper grammar and posture.
Scott Rhine
#31. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.
H.G.Wells
#32. Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends
Thomas Jefferson
#33. A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.
Yitzhak Rabin
#34. I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
James Purefoy
#35. It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
Thomas Jefferson
#36. Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
James Madison
#37. While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.
Michael D. Higgins
#38. This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels. It permeates no less the contributions of contemporary pseudo-economics.
Ludwig Von Mises
#39. The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.
Myles Munroe
#41. Russia and the U.S. bear a special responsibility in world affairs. We have much to offer the rest of the world. Our common history testifies to this, and modern challenges demand that we work together.
Sergei Lavrov
#42. The presumption of divine intervention in human affairs violates my sense of an orderly and comprehensible universe.
Millard Kaufman
#43. Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom
Sunday Adelaja
#44. There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention and respect. This commanding quality is useful in all affairs, and even for obtaining what we ask for.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#45. There's no more happiness," Leo said roughly. "There's no peace in any damn corner of my life. She took it all with her. For pity's sake, Amelia ... go meddle in someone else's affairs, and leave me the hell alone.
Lisa Kleypas
#46. In reality, Rome had grown too big for lots of people to handle its vast affairs any longer by committee.
Edward Gibbon
#47. Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us, nothing could happen but what is pleasing to God. The less there is of man in affairs, the more there is of God.
Vincent De Paul
#48. What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.
Doug Liman
#49. For although she had been, and still was, very much admired, she had got into the way of preferring unsatisfactory love affairs to any others, so that it was becoming almost a bad habit.
Barbara Pym
#50. There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
Edgar Dale
#51. Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera.
Joseph Brodsky
#52. If there be any Gods at all, of which I am not even certain, I cannot believe they would stoop to meddle in the affairs of men. Nor will I wait upon the Gods to do what I see clearly must be done - who's to say that the Goddess cannot work through my hand as well as another.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#53. My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.
Stuart Symington
#54. Very bad indeed. Defoe never acquired a really good style, and can in no true sense be called a "master of the English tongue." Nature had gifted Defoe with untiring energy, a keen taste for public affairs,
Daniel Defoe
#55. Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley
#56. Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.
Kabir
#57. No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.
Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab
#58. I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.
Cesar Romero
#59. In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.
John Sergeant Wise
#60. Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.
Samuel Johnson
#61. Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.
Harold B. Lee
#62. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Ambrose Bierce
#63. I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating.
Yves Montand
#64. there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The
Pearl S. Buck
#65. My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.
Maya Angelou
#66. These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs or that they are making progress towards such an ideal. I think [democracy] is a false ideal.
Walter Lippmann
#67. ACCIDENT A condition of affairs in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body better.
Gideon Wurdz
#68. Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
James F. Cooper
#69. In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.
Mardy Grothe
#70. I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.
Sally Field
#71. I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.
Laisenia Qarase
#72. The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.
Joanna Lumley
#73. Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.
Jill Lepore
#74. Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.
Carroll Quigley
#75. Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.
Mitt Romney
#76. The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.
George Bernard Shaw
#77. We can learn personal humility from episodes that generate shame and guilt. After retiring from worldly affairs and drawing useful lessons from personal disgrace, we must resume living an expedient life devoted to appreciating truth, beauty, and love.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#78. All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
Sophocles
#79. People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#80. That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.
Isaac Barrow
#81. I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
Kangana Ranaut
#82. Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.
Mason Cooley
#83. Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.
Alice Meynell
#84. From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#85. He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Thomas Carlyle
#86. Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech.
Lao-Tzu
#87. Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.
J. William Fulbright
#88. No matter where you go in the world in any country in Africa or Latin America and other place, you will find that China is very deeply involved in the affairs of that country.
Jimmy Carter
#89. No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.
Cesare Beccaria
#90. I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
Grover Cleveland
#91. Prince Felipe is the best ambassador for Spain: I have already told Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, minister of foreign affairs, that the prince should travel to the U.S. more often.
James Costos
#92. As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
Plutarch
#93. That's one splendid thing about such affairs - it's so lovely to look back to them.
L.M. Montgomery
#94. There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
#95. The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.
William Blum
#96. Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has often appeared to be rudderless and unable to make quick decisions when faced with economic crises, presenting instead an image of division and hopelessness.
Klaus Schwab
#97. One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind. Maybe we're reaching for an earthly king.
Max Lucado
#98. It would be like those epic love affairs that exploded into existence and burned white hot for all eternity. The type of love that time and distance and death couldn't seperate
Marissa Meyer
#99. The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.
Lao-Tzu
#100. Must not trouble the gods with our affairs; they take no heed of our angers and disputes.Plutarch.]
Michel De Montaigne
