Affair quotes
393 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Desperate affairs require desperate measures."
"Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers."
"Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life."
"In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable."
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"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 hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again."
"The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair."
"We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe."
"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."
"Mysterious affair, electricity."
"Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife."
"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."
"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs."
"There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan."
"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."
"While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn."
"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
"The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."
"As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state."
"In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur."
"We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over."
"Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another."
