Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me

Circulation of such scurrilous material is not becoming of a senior member of the Foreign Service. The Ministry of External Affairs will deal with the matter in accordance with its well established norms.

But I think, in the longer term, the Brogden affair and the Latham affair are aberrations in what is normally a fairly productive and collaborative relationship.

Because we were terminated, we weren't eligible for any of those things, so if my children wanted to go to college and apply for a Bureau of Indian Affairs scholarship -- we're not Indian,

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.

E. P. Thompson

Games between Coventry and Belfast are always close affairs and this was no exception.

George Bernard Shaw

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

In fact, the Ministry of Economic Affairs has continuously discussed the opening policy over the past two years and the government has also prepared completely for the opening.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

John Adams

I know not whether any man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last 30 years than Tom Paine.

Edward Everett

In this critical and anxious state of affairs General Hooker was relieved, and General Meade was summoned to the chief command of the army.

I like having some role and responsibility to preparing the next generation of student affairs administrators. I like what I do, I like the students I work with and I like my colleagues. I like working with new students every year and I still find the work that I do interesting and challenging.

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

I have no patience with the doctrine of pure science, that science is science only when it is uncontaminated by application in the arts of life; and I also have no patience with the spirit that considers a piece of work to be legitimate only as it has direct bearing on the arts and affairs of men.

Darren Star

I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.'

Barry Mann

I'm very nervous that this whole affair will hurt our business financially.

Boris Yeltsin

I'm thinking in particular of the appeals for humanitarian interference -- this is a new idea -- in the internal affairs of another state, even when this is done on the pretext of protecting human rights and freedoms,

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

John Berry

As a matter of justice and equity, we believe that Native Hawaiians should have self-determination over their own affairs within the framework of federal law, as do most Native American tribes,

as an attempt to break the union, and at best is simply an unwarranted interference in the internal affairs of the organization. It's like a poison pill.

Anyone who says that there is nothing extraordinary about a statement that's tantamount to interference in the internal affairs of other countries betrays the psyche of a bully, a bully who sees a red rag everywhere.

Dean Thompson's exceptional efforts and dedication to students and the institution have brought the College of Public Affairs and Policy to the forefront of the nation's public policy schools,

Deal with your current affairs now, have their facts in order, because they have a tendency of resurfacing as ghosts of the past; as background check or as some research in history and whether you like it or not, that is your life - so handle it with love and care while you still have the opportunity.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them - preferring, instead, the comfort and child-handling practicalities of a pair of trainers.

And the next day, an official from the ministry of foreign affairs also contacted Ambassador Dell and conveyed a similar apology. So for our purposes, this incident is closed.

Amr Moussa

A deal that would conceal the truth in this affair was never even considered.

The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down.

Some respite to husbands the weather may send,/ But housewives' affairs have never an end.

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.