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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed. -- Francesco Guicciardini
Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much. -- John Updike
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I don't want to repeat myself. I don't want to shoot 10 installments of 'Infernal Affairs.' -- Andrew Lau
But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs. -- Christy Romano
In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith,but by the Lack of it. -- Benjamin Franklin
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time. -- Queen Victoria
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe. -- Walter Lippmann
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. -- Aesop
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
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way. -- Confucius
What I really found was that the one similarity between Covert Affairs and Fair Game is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy. -- Doug Liman
Desperate affairs require desperate measures. -- Horatio Nelson
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. -- Plato
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. -- John Maynard Keynes
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. -- Andrew Carnegie
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. -- Marilyn Monroe
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. -- Ambrose Bierce
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. -- Robert E. Lee
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
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! -- William Hazlitt
This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different. -- Alice Paul
I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs. -- Roger Bannister
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. -- Joseph Campbell
I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. -- Kevin Costner
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change. -- Robert Mugabe
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs. -- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Henry Ford
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. -- Arnold Bennett
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage. -- Felix Dennis
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
Alpha men are very turned on by the alpha woman, really high chemistry, really fun to work with, probably really fun to have affairs with, but there's not sustainable harmony in that lack of complement. There can only be one person in the driver's seat. -- Alanis Morissette
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment. -- John Henrik Clarke
International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places. -- Noam Chomsky
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. -- William Shakespeare
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!' -- Mae Whitman
Desperate affairs require desperate remedies. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Wealth is the sinews of affairs. -- Wilfred Bion
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs. -- Mason Cooley
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful. -- John Dewey
Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs. -- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs. -- Harry F. Byrd
I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs. -- Mae West
Good content is the stuff of love affairs. -- Tom Webster
There are no small steps in great affairs. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
I was unfaithful. I had affairs. I cheated. -- Tiger Woods
Save in the office and affairs of love. -- Claudio Sanchez
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs. -- Mason Cooley
European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive. -- Udo Di Fabio
Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself. -- Samuel Johnson
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety. -- Plato
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. -- Helen Gahagan Douglas
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. -- Helen Gahagan Douglas
The best love affairs are those we never had. -- Norman Lindsay
I have no interest in managing my financial affairs. -- Ken Livingstone
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. -- Karl Kraus
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state. -- Cardinal Richelieu
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. -- Harold MacMillan
Love affairs are the real only education in life. -- Marlene Dietrich
There is a tide in the affairs of men -- William Shakespeare
You killed my dog! Get your affairs in order. -- Jim Butcher
Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs. -- George Santayana
Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity. -- Ron Silver
In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable. -- Horatio Nelson
Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity -- Ron Silver
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of. -- Stephen Ambrose
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs. -- Thomas Jefferson
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. -- Honore de Balzac
I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs. -- Drew Barrymore
My love affairs are just between my office and gym. -- Mikhail Prokhorov
It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule. -- Ye Xiaowen
Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs. -- Maurice Strong
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order. -- Seneca the Younger
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. -- Confucius
I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses. -- Cesar Romero
Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results. -- William C. Oates
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity. -- Anatole France
Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible. -- Dario Fo
There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs. -- William H. Hastie
Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs. -- Kerry Cohen
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. -- Claudius Claudianus
A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs. -- Gary L. Thomas
I think it's quite normal for people to have love affairs. -- Claire Tomalin
We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind. -- Max Lucado
Happiness is a heart condition and not a state of affairs. -- Phumi Ngwane
No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does -- George Bernard Shaw
We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe. -- Derek Prince
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy. -- Giovanni Boccaccio
On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs! -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs. -- Chris Cleave
Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted. -- Wilson Mizner
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day. -- Ambrose Bierce
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. -- Iris Murdoch
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. -- Ambrose Bierce
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. -- Frank B. Kellogg
Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds. -- Loretta Chase
Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting -- Ambrose Bierce
Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs. -- Aristotle
Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs. -- Linda Dillow
In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do. -- Sandy Berger
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs -- Alexander Hamilton
We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones. -- Walter Lippmann
The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs. -- Peter Drucker
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs. -- Bernard Crick
Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time. -- Mason Cooley
Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones. -- Chris Rock
[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture. -- Ai Weiwei
Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs. -- Rick Perry
The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests. -- Paul Wolfowitz
I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart. -- Robert Fulghum
He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands. -- Umar
Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen. -- Brother Lawrence
I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs. -- Gerard Depardieu

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