Quotes of: Foreign-affairs Keyword

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

Edward Bond

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

Erma Bombeck

It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.

Erin Bow

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Bertrand Russell

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

George Washington

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

Hillary Clinton

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

John Updike

Juliet Hulme: Affairs are much more exciting than marriages. [Then, with disgust] Juliet Hulme: As Mummy can testify.

Heavenly Creatures

Cadet School Principal: Who wants to be like ex-cadet Yan? Young Lau Kin Ming: I do.

Infernal Affairs

Keung: Remember this, if you see someone doing something but at the same time watching you... then he is a cop.

Infernal Affairs

Lau Kin Ming: [raising his hands to police officers] I'm a cop.

Infernal Affairs

Alicia: This is a very strange love affair. Devlin: Why? Alicia: Maybe the fact that you don't love me.

Notorious

Turkish: You aren't exactly Mister Current Affairs are you, Tommy? "Mad Fist" went mad, and "The Gun," shot himself.

Snatch.

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.

Richard Le Gallienne

China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

Hu Jintao

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

David Herbert Donald

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Saint Basil

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

Andrew Fletcher

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

Aeschylus

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

Thucydides