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Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
— Bernard Baruch
I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.
— Thomas Jefferson
A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.
— Gary L. Thomas
The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.
— Frederic Bastiat
The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.
— Dean Acheson
Fish in another man's pond and you will catch crabs.
— Habeeb Akande
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.
— Elbert Hubbard
When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.
— Amy Sedaris
My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.
— Peter Landesman
If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
What kind of friendship have you had?
Or for that matter ... what kind of love affairs? — James Baldwin
Or for that matter ... what kind of love affairs? — James Baldwin
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
— Queen Victoria
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
— Desiderius Erasmus
While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.
— Michael D. Higgins
It is easy to have love affairs than to solve math problems but it is easy to learn if you trust God
— Edwin Abejero
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!
— John Wain
Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.
— Ernest Bevin
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.
— Margaret MacMillan
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
— Fran Lebowitz
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm sure the 'I wouldn't fuck a murder conspirator' argument wins over many an internal affairs review board. Bring him in. It'll be in your favor.
— Benjamin R. Smith
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
— Mignon McLaughlin
I wished I had died before I loved anyone but her.
— Ernest Hemingway,
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
— Pliny The Elder
No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own,
— Jiang Zemin
The absolute necessity to create a proper Earth government' - we should inscribe this as the priority item on the agenda of world affairs.
— Robert Muller
Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.
— William Boyd
Dieu! It is that in this country you treat the affairs gastronomic with a criminal indifference.
— Agatha Christie
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
— Samantha Power
We were hooked when we woke.
We had arms for each other.
But I yearned to resume
My dreams of another. — Roman Payne
We had arms for each other.
But I yearned to resume
My dreams of another. — Roman Payne
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
— Matt Blunt
The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
— Baz Luhrmann
So, if there are any couples here this evening having a secret extramarital affair, I encourage you to breed.
— Alison Larkin
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
— Horace
Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.
— George Washington
Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness.
— Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism.
— Maggie Young
Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech.
— Lao-Tzu
It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.
— John Adams
Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others - that is too high a price to pay.
— Robert Greene
Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people's affairs, never turn to examine themselves.
— Xenophon
The issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.
— Robertson Davies
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
— Theodore Roosevelt
They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other, fate ties them together.
— Parul Wadhwa
A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
— Socrates
Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.
— Chuck Feeney
I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.
— Phillip Lim
Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
— Alice Duer Miller
Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs
putting in his oar, so to speak
with some pat word or sentence. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
putting in his oar, so to speak
with some pat word or sentence. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Do not meddle in the affairs of Administrative Assistants, for they are petty and quick to misfile.
— Alexandra Erin
In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'
— Benjamin Graham
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
— Herbert Hoover
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
— Mason Cooley
We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.
— George W. Bush
In the morning, that moment, when I knew it was you. When I could feel you breathing and we opened our eyes at the exact same time.
— Kate Chisman
John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.
— Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.
— Edward Jenks
Winners have no interest or association in the opinions, actions or affairs of losers.
— Jeffrey Fry
We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.
— Brother Lawrence
The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.
— Walter Lippmann
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
— Ambrose Bierce
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.] — Plautus
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.] — Plautus
Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.
— Eknath Easwaran
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
— Honore De Balzac
That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.
— Owen Feltham
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.
— Charles Dickens
Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.
— Christopher Paolini
The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.
— Ellen Willis
Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.
— Linda Dillow
I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men.
— Benjamin Franklin
He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.
— Francesco Guicciardini
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
— Bertrand Russell
Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
— Abdolkarim Soroush
I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.
— Anne Ellis
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.
— Helen Gahagan
I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
— Woodrow Wilson
What Is Prayer? Prayer is man giving God the legal right and permission to interfere in earth's affairs.
— Myles Munroe
I don't want to repeat myself. I don't want to shoot 10 installments of 'Infernal Affairs.'
— Andrew Lau
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
— Ellen Glasgow
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
— Hugo Black