Affairs Quotes - page 8

What I really found was that the one similarity between Covert Affairs and Fair Game is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy. (Doug Liman)
So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology. View quote
Daniel Yergin
There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star. View quote
Gabriela Sabatini
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. View quote
Helen Gahagan Douglas
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. View quote
John M. McHugh
There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers. View quote
Li Peng
I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec. View quote
Lucien Bouchard
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!' View quote
Mae Whitman
From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course. View quote
Manny Farber
Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind. View quote
Mary Hunter Austin
I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV. (Phillip Lim)
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. View quote
Paul Wellstone
Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity. View quote
Ron Silver
Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die. View quote
Saffron Aldridge
In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd. View quote
Simon Greenleaf
Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed. View quote
Steve Buyer
My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army. View quote
Stuart Symington
Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also. View quote
Townsend Harris
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state. View quote
William Scranton
That is why a thinker like Thoreau said that ‘that government is the best which governs the least.' This means that when people come into possession of political power, the interference with the freedom of people is reduced to a minimum. In other words, a nation that runs its affairs smoothly and effectively without much State interference is truly democratic. Where such a condition is absent, the form of government is democratic in name. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. (Mahatma Gandhi)
One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The vote is the most effective and merciful instrument that man has devised to manage his affairs. View quote
José Martí
No one, in the year 1770, was better fitted than Samuel Adams, either by talent and temperament or the circumstances of his position, to push the continent into a rebellion. Unlike most of his patriot friends, he had neither private business nor private profession to fall back upon when public affairs grew tame, his only business being, as one might say, the public business, his only profession the definition and defense of popular rights. ...the serious business of a man who during ten years had abandoned all private pursuits and had embraced poverty to become a tribune of the people. View quote
Carl L. Becker
I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs. View quote
Gérard Depardieu