Quotes About Affairs

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

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

matters. Do you think, my daughters, that it is an easy matter to have to do business with the world, to live in the world, to engage in the affairs of the world, and, as I have said, to live as worldly men do, and yet inwardly to be strangers to the world, and enemies of the world, like persons who are in exile -- to be, in short, not men but angels?

Outside of a teapot life is but thousands of dusty affairs.

Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life's affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion — of fun, love, or something that will outlast you — so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions.

There is no doubt in my mind at all. The Duke of Edinburgh has had affairs - yes, full-blown affairs, and more than one.

The public has no interest in whether the President acts boldly or timidly in his personal affairs.

I have no problem saying that I have differences in policy with the United States.

In a letter to Sebastian... My brother is preoccupied with affairs of state and all the more suitable of his friends are unavailable at present, which only leaves you... Seb winced. The minx. She knew how to deliver a neat insult.

I have not found among my possessions anything which I've held more dear, nor valued so much, as the knowledge of the actions of great men, acquired by long experience in contemporary affairs, and a continual study of ancient history…

The alleged complexity, depth, and obscurity of these questions is part of the illusion propagated by the system of ideological control, which aims to make the issues seem remote from the general population and to persuade them of their incapacity to organize their own affairs or to understand the social world in which they live without the tutelage of intermediaries.

So I proposed to give the people scientific government…a business administration. An administration that would have run the government exactly as a successful businessman runs his business. The people would have resented it if I had told them they didn't know how to run their affairs. There was only one way to do it…gain control and force it down their throats.

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

One must take human form to engage in human affairs. It was difficult.

her right hand gently, even protectively, rests on a globe to symbolize her newly acquired power in world affairs.

So I says "My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs." And we had the tea and the affairs too....

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Why should I regret my incapacity for details and worldly affairs, when it leads to such pleasant consequences

Experience has always shown, and reason shows, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.