Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cliff Floyd

He knows there is more to life then baseball and an affair like this is tremendous for someone at his age. He is a veteran now. I am not going to ask him to carry my bags anymore.

Scott McCloud

Hollywood has a love affair with heroes' stories right now. It depends on people being motivated to make the movies, because first and foremost they have to make a good movie." ()

Rebekah Brooks

Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

Sandy Berger

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

Virginia Woolf

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

Vladimir Putin

We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.

Walter Lippmann

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

Fareed Zakaria

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

I have no patience with the doctrine of pure science, that science is science only when it is uncontaminated by application in the arts of life; and I also have no patience with the spirit that considers a piece of work to be legitimate only as it has direct bearing on the arts and affairs of men.

Darren Star

I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.'

I like having some role and responsibility to preparing the next generation of student affairs administrators. I like what I do, I like the students I work with and I like my colleagues. I like working with new students every year and I still find the work that I do interesting and challenging.

Johnny Damon

I hope the fans understand what went wrong in terms of signing with the Red Sox. Nothing will take away from my memories and the love affair I had with the city. But I really don't care, I just want to help the Yankees win.

King Hussein

I intervened from my sickbed to prevent interference in the affairs of the army in a change that appeared aimed at settling scores and retiring loyal and qualified people.

The IOC is feeling as if Austria is taking the piss out of them. After the doping affair (at the 2002 Winter Olympics) in Salt Lake City, the same thing happened again, with the same people and the same equipment.

The first priority in organizing personal affairs is a will that reflects your current family and personal circumstances.

Kathleen Blanco

The financial affairs of Louisiana will be transparent and wide open as it pertains to this period of recovery, more so than it ever has been before, ... We will stand well to the expected scrutiny by the public, the Congress and the media.

Mikhail Prokhorov

I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed.

Ellen Johnson

The election of Africa's first democratically elected female president is historic... I promise that I will conduct myself and the affairs of the country in a manner that brings pride to the women of Liberia, Africa and even the world,

The election is an internal Palestinian affair and a national and internal obligation. Neither America nor any other party has the right to intervene in this democratic process.

Kofi Annan

The essential part of the discussion, ... try and establish an Iraqi administration that would be responsible for running its own affairs -- and not so much for the U.N. to take over the management of Iraq.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

Alexandra Robbins

A Health Affairs study comparing patient-satisfaction scores with HCAHPS surveys of almost 100,000 nurses showed that a better nurse work environment was associated with higher scores on every patient-satisfaction survey question.

A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

The majority of these parents may have houses but they had the houses before they had kids. When somebody from Disability Affairs goes to our home, they think that we are too rich,

These Indo-Pak fixtures are going to be an annual affair in places where there is large Indo-Pak population like Chicago, New York etc.

All elected leaders will be looking at whether the regional system is fair and equitable to the taxpayers who elected them. Regional systems are nothing new to us. We already participate in regional libraries, wastewater, transit and the airport. We just don't want one city subsidizing the affairs of others.

Eugene Jarecki

All defense contractors have public affairs departments. They know they appear to be war profiteers to the public. They want to tell you that the bombs they make make war safer for civilians.

Epictetus

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it

William Hazlitt

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

Fred Perry

It's a very nostalgic place. I've had a love affair with Wimbledon ever since I can remember. It stays with you.

Mark Shriver

Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.