Affairs Quotes

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.

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 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.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

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.

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.

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

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

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.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

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

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

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.