Famous Quotes & Sayings

By comparison, this is much like an internal affairs (IA) division within a local police department.

Alexis de Tocqueville

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs then their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society

He told him that he serves with Sen. Akaka on the Veterans Affairs Committee, and he has seen firsthand how hard he works for our nation's veterans and for the people of Hawaii.

Learned Hand

There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

P. G. Wodehouse

You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.

George Santayana

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

Mikhail Prokhorov

I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.

The last three years I thought we deserved a higher seed. It's not unexpected with the state of affairs in that type of meeting.

Benjamin Franklin

The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?

The Mainland Affairs Council currently has not received any formal applications and so I can't respond to hypothetical questions.

Noam Chomsky

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

Epictetus

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it

Mason Cooley

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

Ellen Johnson

The election of Africa's first democratically elected female president is historic... I promise that I will conduct myself and the affairs of the country in a manner that brings pride to the women of Liberia, Africa and even the world,

The election is an internal Palestinian affair and a national and internal obligation. Neither America nor any other party has the right to intervene in this democratic process.

Kofi Annan

The essential part of the discussion, ... try and establish an Iraqi administration that would be responsible for running its own affairs -- and not so much for the U.N. to take over the management of Iraq.

The first priority in organizing personal affairs is a will that reflects your current family and personal circumstances.

Kathleen Blanco

The financial affairs of Louisiana will be transparent and wide open as it pertains to this period of recovery, more so than it ever has been before, ... We will stand well to the expected scrutiny by the public, the Congress and the media.

Plautus

Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

Paula Jones

Did you have an extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky?

Mignon McLaughlin

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

Alexandra Robbins

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.

A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

The majority of these parents may have houses but they had the houses before they had kids. When somebody from Disability Affairs goes to our home, they think that we are too rich,

These Indo-Pak fixtures are going to be an annual affair in places where there is large Indo-Pak population like Chicago, New York etc.

All elected leaders will be looking at whether the regional system is fair and equitable to the taxpayers who elected them. Regional systems are nothing new to us. We already participate in regional libraries, wastewater, transit and the airport. We just don't want one city subsidizing the affairs of others.

Eugene Jarecki

All defense contractors have public affairs departments. They know they appear to be war profiteers to the public. They want to tell you that the bombs they make make war safer for civilians.

Max Lucado

We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.

John Dewey

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

The freedom of the media to report on current affairs in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong is protected by the Basic Law.

The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.

Carroll Quigley

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.