Affair Quotations | Page 5

But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as possible and as many activities as possible.

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.

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

Dont talk to me about Valentines Day. At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!

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.

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

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

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

Love is an affair of credulity.

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

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

Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no person knows whether he or she will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is, to do the person good, because for that purpose alone were human beings sent into this life!

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.