#affairs

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#affairs #because #beginning #during #foreign

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

#depend #many #rarely #succeed

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite. ↗

— James Hillman

#behind #being #big #capacity #current

Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about. ↗

— Steve Kanaly

#affairs #any #bit #body #bones

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters. ↗

— George William Norris

#constitution #emigration #entirely #every #every nation

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

— Carroll O'Connor

#affairs #business #daily #obscene #papers

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

#granted #hang #healthy #healthy thing #long

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#am #answer #any #association #beliefs

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. ↗

— Sophocles

#become #cure #diseased #evils #man

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#affairs #heart #human #human affairs #i