Affair Quotes - Page 16

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.

Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.

You're not the same after, say, an incredible love affair that went very well or a love affair that went bad. Or something that happens to your health, or something that happened to somebody else's health, that is close to you. Or something that happens professionally.

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.