Quotes About Affairs

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting

Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

So many love affairs doesn't survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other.

How are you feeling? What problems are you facing? How can I help you solve those problems? That's the kind of conversation that helps married couples stay in love with each other. Or it leads people into affairs when it's done outside of marriage and with someone of the opposite sex. It's intimate conversation.

Alas, if must your great affairs be done, Know that fair means increase your servants vigor: Hearts by unpleasing checks are never won, And willingness is not enlarged by rigor.

Some of these figures were well known and even revered Delhi characters, such as the Majzub (holy madman) Din Ali Shah: "He is so careless about the affairs of this world," wrote Sayyid

Bihar] and of no inconsiderable weight at the Mughal court, it was natural to determine on him as the properest person to settle the affairs of that government. Accordingly, when the new Nawab returned my visit this morning, I recommended him to consult Jagat Seth on all occasions, which he readily assented to.'84

Modave noted that the further away you went from Calcutta, the worse the situation became: 'A European visiting the upper parts of the Ganges finds mere robbers in charge of Company affairs, who think nothing of committing the most atrocious acts of tyranny, or subaltern thieves whose despicable villainy dishonours the British nation, whose principles of honour and humanity they seem totally to have rejected

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. These are periods when… to dare is the highest wisdom.