Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.
Actually, if you take the average American, and studies have shown that, he is really concerned only with private affairs; that is to say, with his health, his money and family affairs.
It's not necessarily that having an affair you get something from the other person that you're not getting from your partner, it's that you created a situation for yourself in which you're unexpressed and so maybe you feel another person allows you to express yourself.
There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.
I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.
It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged carpet cleaner named Bill, who lived with his Mom, and his love affair with Anna, a drug-addicted prostitute. I made that when I was 16.
Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
Wealth is the sinews of affairs.
There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.
Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole once said that "life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy to the man who feels. " Comedy is negative; it is a criticism of limitations and an unwillingness to accept them. Tragedy is positive; it is an uncritical acceptance of the positive content of that which is delimited. Since comedy deals with the limitations of actual situations and tragedy with their positive content, comedy must ridicule and tragedy must endorse.
I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me. . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.
These are not vague inferences. . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.