Affairs Quotes

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

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.