Quotes of: Foreign-affairs Keyword

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

Memoirs and Selected Letters

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Man and Superman

The werewolf pointed at a bench next to the door into the Kirkwoods’ tomb. “Sit. Wait.” Did I mention werewolves were chatty?

The Nightmare Affair

The lower the class of the affair, the more likely the band will be invited to eat.

Notes From A Battered Grand: A Memoir

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity

(Georgie) I hated going to the playground EVERYDAY. If someone had only told me it wouldn't last forever

My Wife's Affair

(Peter) If you don't share the lows, it seems you might stop sharing the highs as well.

My Wife's Affair

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

A Tract on Monetary Reform

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

Giraldus Cambrensis

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

John Sergeant Wise

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

Paul Wellstone

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army.

Stuart Symington

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

Thucydides

Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness.

Michael Bassey Johnson

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

When a person understands this setting into single- mindedness well, his affairs will pann out. Loyalty is also contained within this single- mindedness.

Rati Tsiteladze

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

Carol Vorderman

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

Dick Thornburgh

No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other's legs... To lose all of that for what? Who's got the time? I'm having great fun working.

Boman Irani

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.

Jill Lepore