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  • Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

    Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books
  • Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

    Heart   Character   Fire  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.

    Keys   Land   Challenges  
  • If some small storekeeper somewhere decides he's not going to pay the money, the Godfather doesn't let him get away with it. The money doesn't mean anything to him, but he sends in his goons to beat him to a pulp. You have to establish credibility, otherwise conformity to your orders will tend to erode. International affairs runs in much the same way.

    Running   Mean   Order  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

  • You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

    Christian   Believe   Men  
  • The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . . The nobler sort of man pays special attention to nine points. He is anxious to see clearly, to hear distinctly, to be kindly in his looks, respectful in his demeanor, conscientious in his speech, earnest in his affairs. When in doubt, he is careful to inquire; when in anger, he thinks of the consequences; when offered an opportunity for gain, he thinks only of his duty.

  • I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

    Thinking   Perfect   Way  
  • For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.

  • I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.

    Men   Married   Affair  
    "1999: ABC's Walters Pressed Lewinsky on Affairs with Married Men". www.newsbusters.org. May 9, 2008.
  • Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

    "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by John Walker (p. 383), 2001.
  • Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

    Anxiety   Affair   Humans  
  • I think I'm just really in love with women, and I love to see them looking incredibly, truly beautiful. I think every time a woman wears one of my dresses, you know, in a matter of speaking, I'm having a little love affair with her!

    "Prabal Gurung on His Love Affair with Women, SS13 Campaign, and Target Collection". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. January 31, 2013.
  • I think reality television, unless it's inspirational, which it very rarely is, I think it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing state of affairs that we're in.

    Source: variety.com
  • An election marks the end of the affair; it puts paid to the seduction of the many by the few. Pretty words, fulsome promises. We wind up married, but to whom, to what? We cannot always predict with certainty the future leader from the winning candidate. Some men grow in the job; others are diminished by its demands and its grandeur.

    Jobs   Winning   Men  
  • People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.

    People   Want   Way  
  • The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

    Home   Views   World  
    Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.280, Penguin
  • I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.

    Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu
  • Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

    Real   Movement   Affair  
    Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.182, Cambridge University Press
  • No matter where you go in the world in any country in Africa or Latin America and other place, you will find that China is very deeply involved in the affairs of that country.

    Country   Latin   America  
    Interview with Andrea Useem, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.
  • Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

    Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.

    Sex   Night   Age  
  • A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

    Love   Affair   Goodness  
    Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.165, Vintage
  • For some people, a one-night stand doesn't make any difference in a seven-year love affair. I don't believe the degree of betrayal is always commensurate with the egregiousness of the behavior. They are two separate things.

    Source: wbur.org
  • In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

    Wise   Men   Phrases  
    Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”
  • I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.

    "Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock". Book by Simon Reynolds, 1988.
  • China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

  • Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.

    Alcohol   Acid   Affair  
    Nikki Sixx (2008). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
  • How is it possible for one’s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears all that he does, and knows his secret open affairs, and that he will be made to stand before Allah, answerable for all his deeds - how can one be certain and aware of all of this, and yet persist upon things which displease Allah; persist upon abandoning Allah’s orders, neglecting His rights, and yet claim that he has good expectation of Allah?

    Heart   Order   Rights  
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