Affair Quotes - Page 5

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You dont even love chocolate. Chocolate is something you have an affair with.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.