Affairs Quotes

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

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

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs.

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

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

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.