Quotes About Affairs

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

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.

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.

The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie has, historically, played a most revolutionary role.

Sir Bernard was standing at his big eastern window with his hands behind his back, looking out over the fog. It was his great-man-of-affairs pose,

This is not to suggest that neurobiology can save the world, but simply that the gradual accrual of knowledge about human beings can help us find better ways for the management of human affairs.

As so often happens in human affairs, fate intervened at the moment of victory and destroyed the best-laid plans.

The work being done by Linklaters to help organizations understand keys to success in the development sector serves as an important international affairs issue and crucial element in how all of us work to support service provision in impoverished communities in a lasting and effective way.

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.

No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.

Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.

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

No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.

I don't have a problem with a board that advises, that supervises, one with which we can have a discussion. But we will never accept a board that has control over Puerto Rico's affairs.

My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

When a president was elected with foreign policy experience, it was usually less about his foreign policy experience than other things.

For me foreign policy is critically important.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

She had suddenly a clear view of him as a man extraordinarily clear-sighted in the affairs of others, in great affairs, but in his own so simple as to be almost a baby. And gentle! And extraordinarily unselfish. He didn't betray one thought of self-interest… not one.

But it is dangerous to follow Examples, if they do not correspond in the most material Circumstances with the present State of our Affairs; are not conducted with equal Judgment, or attended with the like Prospect of Success.

of Ludovico Szforza] He was become immoderately vain, and little considering the Inconstancy of Human Affairs, was wont to say 'He was the Son of Fortune and could manage his Mother as he pleased.

Margot used to like describing men as 'my unhappy love affair.' But hadn't that presumed the existence of a happy love affair that made the others unimportant? What is unhappy is the only kind Margo ever has?