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Quotes About Affairs

Speculation is necessary in business, but in affairs of the heart, it often leads to poor judgement.
~ Sylvia Day
The consequences of love affairs would stop me from my independent freedom of creative activity, and I don't intend to be stopped.
~ Sylvia Plath
That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
~ T.S. Eliot
If the reader says the state of affairs which I wish to bring about is right, or is just, or is inevitable and if this must lead into further deterioration, then I will have no quarrel with it. I might even, in some circumstances, feel obliged to support him.
~ T.S. Eliot
In my time, these affairs were kept out of the papers; But nowadays, there's no such thing as privacy.
~ T.S. Eliot
The country was in a hell of a mess, altogether better off if both coasts were amputated and allowed to drift away, the East in the direction of Soviet Russia and the West to Red China, allowing the heartland to manage its own affairs.
~ Just Ward
People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'
~ Dolly Parton
The United States does not accept foreign meddling in our elections, and we shouldn't have an ambassador attempting to intrude in another country's political affairs.
~ Jeanne Shaheen
As far as my involvement in the Bajaj family affairs is concerned, it is a friendly gesture.
~ Sharad Pawar
His own deism allowed for a God who, having made the world, having made the world, did not participate in the working out of its ends, whose management of human destiny only inherited in his allowing the patterns and values established by His will to work themselves out in human affairs. Lincoln's response to his own question is to change his tone and focus.
~ Fred Kaplan
Alone among the older kids, he had a romantic imagination, a feel for the things of the spirit, for the intangibles in human affairs. (It's what drew him to Churchill, a man whose appeal Joe Senior could never grasp.)
~ Fredrik Logevall
'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.
~ David Shuster
For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.
~ Mitt Romney
Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.
~ John Desmond Bernal
A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.
~ Calvin Miller
A Supreme Being existed who insisted on concerning Himself with the affairs of men in order to draw them into friendship with Him.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Mustafa Alhawsawi, a brother of one hijacker, sent them $18,000 via Western Union. He also received by return transfer all the group's leftover funds—about $42,000—when the hijackers wound up their affairs in late August 2001 and prepared to die.
~ Steve Coll
Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.
~ Michel de Montaigne
must not trouble the gods with our affairs; they take no heed of our angers and disputes.Plutarch.]
~ Michel de Montaigne
Rhetoric flourished in Rome when their affairs were in their worst state and when they were shattered by the storms of civil war, just as a field left untamed bears the most flourishing weeds.
~ Michel de Montaigne
My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.
~ Peggy Lipton
Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.
~ Cleveland Amory
I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.
~ Drew Barrymore
Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld