#affairs

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#against #ascendancy #battle #beings #ever

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#human #human affairs #serious #seriously #taken

Desperate affairs require desperate measures. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#desperate #measures #require

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#again #curtis #earlier #groups #institutes

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ↗

— James Reston

#affairs #always #conform #devilish #foreign

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs. ↗

— Christy Romano

#columbia #degree #first #get #i

Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#angels #answer #charge #govern #man

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#destinies #guides #human #human affairs #opinion

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#dependence #happiness #helplessness #love #pathetic

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#ripens #slowness #them #which