Quotes of: Public-affairs Keyword

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

Robert Fulghum

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Sophocles

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Terry Eagleton

Fame looks like a really hairy affair. But if it's part of the job, I'll figure out a way to deal with it.

Tom Everett Scott

Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!

Kenneth More

I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.

Laila Robins

The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.

Lao Tzu

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

Victor Ponta

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

William Scranton

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days.

Jesse Harris

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Ambrose Bierce

The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future.

Aly Khan

If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working.

Edward McKendree Bounds

With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

Memories help make us who we are.(Taken from novel...A Very English Affair)

Faith Mortimer

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

Jeremy Clarkson

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

Duke of Wellington

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Henry Clay

. . . a constitution, intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.

John Marshall