Famous Quotes & Sayings

Humble is the grass in the field, yet it has noble relations. All the bread grains are grass - wheat and rye, barley, sorghum and rice; maize, the great staple of America; millet, oats and sugar cane. Other things have their season but the grass is of all seasons... the common background on which the affairs of nature and man are conditioned and displayed.

He went back to Orlando and told friends and family he was going to have to spend the rest of his life in jail. He got his affairs in order then turned himself in.

Chris Patten

He would like Britain to take a leading role in the affairs of the EU, and to lay to rest our ambivalence about membership of the union,

Benjamin Franklin

He who shall introduce into the public affairs the principles of a primitive Christianity, will change the face of the world.

Benjamin Franklin

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity, will revolutionize the world

He has stated that affairs of the heart are private matters that should be kept that way.

When the IMF lends you money it has all these strings attached. But if you don't owe the IMF money, the IMF can't poke its nose into your affairs even though IMF money is cheaper than the money that's available on the open market.

Chiang Kai-shek

Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors of importance.

David Shuster

'Meet the Press' is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

Medical affairs groups that have been removed from the grips of commercial bias must look elsewhere for funding. Medical affairs groups are oftentimes receiving their own dedicated budgets.

Richard Butler

My job is to return to New York to report this stage of affairs to the Security Council. I can't go into details until I do that.

Bill Cunningham

Obviously we don't know right now how it was smuggled in the jail -- that's the subject of an internal affairs investigation.

Franklin Knight Lane

My affairs here have not prospered and I am thinking of going somewhere else. Do you think Japan has anything to offer a man such as myself?

Robert Teeter

Moreover when Reagan and the President were compared on the handling of a series of issues of foreign affairs and dealing with Congress.

This puts in its place the argument the U.S. government has tried to use against Chavez that he meddles in the affairs of other countries,

Let all your affairs be resolved, by continually worshipping the Feet of the Guru.

Joe Nation

Several questions concerning the status of veteran's benefits, the construction of veteran's homes, and suitable mental health services face our veteran population and necessitate action, ... As chair of the Assembly committee on veterans affairs I will fight to provide first-rate care for California's 2.5 million veterans and will pursue increased benefits for the brave men and women serving in the California National Guard.

Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.

Sen. Allard testified in front of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee last year that a number of hurdles have to be cleared before he could support this legislation, including putting it to a statewide referendum. The issue is larger than just Pueblo County.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

Nelson Mandela

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

George Foreman

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

Terence

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

Lord Byron

There is a tide in the affairs of women, Which, taken at the flood, leads God knows where

William Shakespeare

There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Chuck Feeney

Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.

Evelyn Underhill

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

Rachel Nichols

I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.

Dick Thornburgh

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

Dick Thornburgh

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.

Andrew O'Hagan

I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.