(223 quotes found)
“Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed.”
David K Shipler
“Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.”
David Quammen
“A man's dying is more the survivors affair than his own”
Thomas Mann
“The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed.”
William Cobbett
“Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends.”
Chu Hsi
“You know what pressure is put on Belarus, ranging from open blackmail to attempted interference in our internal affairs from the West, and from small provocations to threat of extremist rallies from the opposition.”
Alexander Lukashenko
“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs”
Albert Einstein
“There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them”
Joseph Roux
“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?' He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert.”
Diana Dors
