Affair Quotes

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair.

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.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor has a constitutional and statutory right to participate.

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

Photography is a love affair with life.

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

My longest love affair: with a book.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.

Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.

Mysterious affair, electricity.

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.