Quotes of: Human-affairs Keyword

I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.

Andrew O'Hagan

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Freddy Fender

As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from...

Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Dating is probably the most fraught human interaction there is. You're sizing people up to see if they're worth your time and attention, and they're doing the same to you. It's meritocracy applied to personal life, but there's no accountability. We s...

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

Gloria Stuart

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

Agnes de Mille

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

Debra Messing

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

Joycelyn Elders

When you love your work then it isn't work, it's your love affair.

Debasish Mridha

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Madeleine Albright

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Robert Frost

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

Rose Tremain

We decide our affairs, then we rest them with God.

Jabo

There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first category: you can pick one of several possible solutions, pass a bill, a...

Atul Gawande

Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the Age of Intellect is the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve the problems of the world. Even on the low level of practical affairs this is patently untrue. Any small human activity...

The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival

Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire.

Swan Song

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

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

Stephen Ambrose