Quotes of: Public-affairs Keyword

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

The Eyre Affair

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

The End of the Affair

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

The End of the Affair

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

The Eyre Affair

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

Emma

The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience.

Foundations of Higher Education Law and Policy

Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men. Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Do you think we find Jesus, or does He find us?" (140+Likes on FB)

Affairs of the Heart - God's Messages to the World

I’m arguably the least real of all my characters, a state of affairs for which I make no apologies, being, indeed, altogether proud of the fact.

Beginner's Luke

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Emily Carr

Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn't dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth.

Astonish Me

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

The Apology

The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

A Secret Affair

He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it.

A Secret Affair

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

The Social Contract

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Ship of Destiny

(Georgie) Why is it that you always want to run after the one that goes off in a huff, and push away the one who is clinging to you?

My Wife's Affair

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.

The Satires of Persius

I would feel much better about this whole affair if you would slap me and get it over with. I know you want to.

Song For Sophia

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Oliver Twist

Mothers do not have love affairs. Before their children they have dreams, and after their children they have delusions. If the father is involved somewhere, they have fantasies.

The Prince Of Plungers