A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mohandas Gandhi

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Ambrose Bierce

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Aesop

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
Francesco Guicciardini

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Aeschylus

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

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.
Andrew Fletcher

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
Stephen Ambrose

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.
Richard Kerry

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
Tina Fey

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.
Charlie Byrd

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
Lech Walesa

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
Paul Wellstone

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

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

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
Allan Massie

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

But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can't hope satisfactory results.
Bulent Ecevit

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.
Romano Prodi

But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.
John M. McHugh