Affair Quotes - Page 35

• A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Mother, Children, Kids

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• The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

  James Anthony Froude

  Mistake, Men, Issues

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

  Willis Lamb

  Advice, Deference, Following

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• It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

  William Woodruff

  Law, World, Outcomes

  William Woodruff (1998). “A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present”, p.1, Springer

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• My longest love affair: with a book.

  Rebecca Mead

  Book, Love Affair

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• Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.

  Tamar Myers

  Men, Saws, Holding On

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• I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.

  Sarah Lacy

  Art, Passion, Frustration

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• Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

  Amos Oz

  Writing, Sacrifice, Night

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• Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

  George Foreman

  Hurt, People, Boxing

  "George Foreman: Giving Life an Extra Punch". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?

  Walker Percy

  Eye, Past, Long

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves.

  Frida Kahlo

  Stars, Knowing, Bird

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  If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

  Plato

  Government, Political, Politics

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• Cherish sunsets, wild creatures, and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth!

  Stewart Udall

  Sunset, Wild Places, Earth

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• For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Long, Cooking, Sublime

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.6, A&C Black

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• Today I will refuse to jump into the middle of others' affairs, issues, and relationships. I will trust others to work out their own problems, including the ideas and feelings they want to communicate to each other.

  Melody Beattie

  Ideas, Issues, Work Out

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• The love affair you seek is with yourself.

  Alan Cohen

  Love Affair

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• I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

  Alice Waters

  Summer, Childhood, Tomatoes

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• How is it possible for one’s heart to be certain that one is going to meet Allah, that Allah sees and hears all that he does, and knows his secret open affairs, and that he will be made to stand before Allah, answerable for all his deeds - how can one be certain and aware of all of this, and yet persist upon things which displease Allah; persist upon abandoning Allah’s orders, neglecting His rights, and yet claim that he has good expectation of Allah?

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Order, Rights

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• It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience - well, not always, of course, but in actual fact, it is our less successful love affairs that enable us to appreciate the others. I think love protects us from one of the biggest problems facing the modern world: boredom.

  François Lelord

  Adventure, Successful, Thinking

  François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.23, Gallic Books

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• It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive.

  Brian Topp

  Men, Two, Stories

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• History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

  Margaret MacMillan

  Feel Good, Generations, Complicated

  Margaret MacMillan (2010). “The Uses and Abuses of History”, p.127, Profile Books

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• The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put an end to something that without interference could go on endlessly. It is therefore quite significant, a structural element in the realm of human affairs, that men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish and that they are unable to punish what has turned out to be unforgivable.

  Hannah

  Mean, Men, Opposites

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• The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Blessed, Blessing, Sacred

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• If there is a Creator-God, it has used methods of creation that are indistinguishable from nature, it has declined to make itself known for all of recorded history, it doesn't intervene in affairs on earth, and has made itself impossible to observe. Even if you believe in that God... why would you think it would want to be worshiped?

  David G. McAfee

  Believe, Thinking, Creator God

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Dec 06, 2013

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