Affairs Quotes

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Henry Ford

Work, God, Best

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Happiness, Time, Future

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare

Life, Men, Lose

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... 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

End, Friend, Lost

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Help, Takes

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin

Faith, Men, Saved

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
Erma Bombeck

Life, Women, Sex

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell

Love, Marriage, Spiritual

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Confucius

Before, Example, Laborious

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Victory, Sometimes

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Men, Stupid

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.
Lao Tzu

Failure, End, Often

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw

Before, Except, Tree

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce

Politics, Public, Advantage

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Plato

Great, Men, Nothing

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
Margaret Thatcher

Good, Strong, Bad

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
Will Rogers

Try, Else, Nation

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
W. C. Fields

Time, Face, Situation

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.
Nelson Mandela

Mistakes, Long, After

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
Saint Francis de Sales

Good, Spiritual, Help

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell

Long, Question, Granted

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.
Mitt Romney

Time, Home, Become

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Carroll O'Connor

Business, Daily, Show

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.
Hillary Clinton

Strong, Both, China

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Thomas Carlyle

Rich, Days, Three

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley

Humor, Important, Two

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Ambrose Bierce

Others, Total, Inactivity

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
Robert Mugabe

Change, Themselves, Call

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Great, End

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin Disraeli

Treat, Makes, Foreign

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