Affair Quotations | Page 3

This affair is not only annoying but is holding Bayern back.

This affair also throws new light on the attempt to achieve a single market in services. It shows the difficulties put in the way of consumers in the single market, across national legal systems.

This is a direct assault on U.S. House of Representatives, and don't be under any illusions that this is a partisan affair because according to reports, allies of the president are investigating members of both sides of the aisle.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

They know the game of baseball. They've been in every game. It's been a great love affair for us so far.

This painful affair is eroding Italy's credibility on a daily basis,

It's just been a love affair with those kids that want to spend a little extra time on the game. And I think it's been mutual respect because they know I care about the game and care about them as people.

It was only years later that he found out that the princess had been having an affair for months before he and Camilla had even made contact.

It was a very patchy affair up there and we owe them one. There's not much more that needs to be said.

For generations, many people have known that Jefferson fathered children by Sally Hemings, ... The much publicized results of DNA tests several years ago simply corroborate what had been common knowledge. Over the years, certain highly regarded scholars defended Jefferson's 'purity,' categorically denying claims that there had been a sexual relationship between master and slave. Since those 'revelations,' some of them have retreated from their former position of 'It didn't happen' only to insist that the affair between Hemings and Jefferson was an exception. But in fact such affairs, far from being exceptional, were fairly commonplace. That's part of what I wanted to convey by 'the American way' of the title.

It's the burning question of the day. The media needs to openly discuss the effects of the affair and also key things, like the importance of not compromising on editorial independence.

It looks like the suspect was upset that his wife had left him on Sunday. He knew she was having an affair with the victim. Within the next two days he had flown to Miami and rented a car.

It made a lot of straight people realize there are still a lot of closeted gay people out there and how hard it is for them. I think it also made people realize that an affair between two gay people is just as hard as it is for two straight people. When it comes to love, everybody is emotional, whether you're gay or straight.

It's a very nostalgic place. I've had a love affair with Wimbledon ever since I can remember. It stays with you.

Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.

Even worse than an extra-marital affair is the use of federal prosecutors and federal agents to expose an extra-martial relationship. Yes, there is a threat to society here but it is from the tactics from a 'win-at-all-costs' prosecutor determined to sink a president of the opposition party.

That (prediction) is based on the assumption that you have just trouble with one man. But this is not a personal affair and it is not a personal matter -- it's a social phenomenon. It's a social process that involves millions of Cubans and not just one man.

'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.

It was outright theft. He put (Black Tie Affair) on the lead and lulled the competition to sleep. Black Tie Affair didn't win that race; Jerry Bailey won that race.

I want to emphasize that both of our countries should handle this affair with a maximum care for their bilateral relations,

It will no doubt buoy forecasters who see the recent slowdown in the economy as a temporary affair -- which includes the Fed,

They wouldn't talk about that, when we met the girls who are still alive. They wouldn't engage into whether or not there was ever an affair between them. They said they were very close.

The IOC takes this affair very seriously and is determined to do everything in its power to bring full clarity to what has happened in the past days. We must look at the bigger picture.

The IOC is feeling as if Austria is taking the piss out of them. After the doping affair (at the 2002 Winter Olympics) in Salt Lake City, the same thing happened again, with the same people and the same equipment.

I hope the fans understand what went wrong in terms of signing with the Red Sox. Nothing will take away from my memories and the love affair I had with the city. But I really don't care, I just want to help the Yankees win.

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.'

I'm very nervous that this whole affair will hurt our business financially.

I must admit that this film echoes the Elf affair in France. I found the real case on TV so entertaining.

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

In the midst of the negative atmosphere of the industry, this crowd was 180 degrees the opposite. The attitudes are up. ... They're not losing their love affair with the automobile.

But I think, in the longer term, the Brogden affair and the Latham affair are aberrations in what is normally a fairly productive and collaborative relationship.

I'm just delighted to get my hands on him. Paul Nicholls was very good about the whole affair. He said he would like to retain him but felt it was to the advantage of his owners he should be sold at this time.

George had a long love affair with the islands.

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.

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.

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

Tell me,” Isabelle said.“Who it was. That my father had the affair with.

A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

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

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones.

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

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

Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own,

love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.

I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called "angry." If I had an affair with my husband's best friend and written about that experience, I could see the anger. But I'm not doing that.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

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

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

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

I don't think the love affair with the Olympics has changed one iota. What you're asking with an Olympics is for people to give up every night for two weeks of their lives, and they have to be given reasons to do that.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.

Putting is a very personal affair.

You killed my dog! Get your affairs in order.

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

I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

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.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

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

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.

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper.

You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.

In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

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.

There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.

Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.

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.

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown

Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.