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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.


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


Robert Fulghum
Tags: About Very Human
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
Matt Blunt
Tags: Good Power People
I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.
George Steiner
Tags: Hope Very Much
The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
Adam Ferguson
Tags: History Had Every
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I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.


Ken Livingstone
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There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.


Joseph Roux
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Aside from my work, my interests lie in the arts and in world affairs.


Torsten Wiesel
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I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.


Gerard Depardieu
Tags: Who Had Man
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.


Paul Klee
Tags: Science Art State
It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.
William Godwin
Tags: Who Which Those
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People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.


George Foreman
Tags: People More Than
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The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.


Hedy Lamarr
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce
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It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs.


Monica Johnson
Tags: Up Our See
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We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.


William H. Macy
Tags: Men People Must
Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
Terence
Tags: Men Nature Than
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Andre Breton
Tags: Me Because Love
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Aesop
Tags: Out Our Than
The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Florence Nightingale
Tags: Who World Those
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
Tags: He First Man
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
Samantha Power
Tags: People Get Been
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin Disraeli
Tags: About Very Which
Inserting the FCC into our states' economic and fiscal affairs sets a dangerous precedent and violates state sovereignty in a manner that warrants deeper examination.
Marsha Blackburn
Tags: Our States State
The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.
Charles Babbage
Tags: Men Which Between
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
Tags: Famous Love How
As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
Stephen Kinzer
Tags: War World End
We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.
John Yoo
Tags: War Part State
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
Paul Wellstone
For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first.
Richard Engel
Tags: You Very Had
Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
Umberto Eco
Tags: People Who Even
We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling of regional security to national organizations and expert institutions.
Enrique Pena Nieto
Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.
Rudolf Arnheim
Tags: Our Own Today
Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.
John Desmond Bernal
Tags: Them Way Which
I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas.
John Sherman Cooper
Tags: Death About Think
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
Rebecca West
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Wilson Mizner
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.
Dick Thornburgh
Tags: Power Will Only
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
A Health Affairs study comparing patient-satisfaction scores with HCAHPS surveys of almost 100,000 nurses showed that a better nurse work environment was associated with higher scores on every patient-satisfaction survey question.
Alexandra Robbins
Tags: Work Health Every