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In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.
Survival is not just a physical thing. It's a constant mental affair. So, I kind of really draw a lot of power from that word.
We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.
I've got a love affair with Harley-Davidson. One of my earliest photos with my dad is of him holding me as a baby on his bike.
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.
Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
Going to India to do a film is not an everyday affair. I thought I would do that one movie to show my grandchildren when I am 60.
Debra Stephenson and I are nothing more than friends and have a close working relationship - we certainly have not had an affair.
Marriage is a dialogue. But in any meaningful relationship, we should be honest, whether it is about having an affair or a fling.
That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.
In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.
Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.
Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.
Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.
Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.
A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.