Quotes about Affair
If we are not captured by his personality and character, then all our declarations of thanksgiving are like the gratitude of a wife to a husband for the money she gets from him to use in her affair with another man.
- John Piper
affair.—The mind being a designing Cause, only enables it to produce effects in consequence of its design; it will not enable it to be the designing Cause of all its own designs.
- Jonathan Edwards
When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that our love was doomed: love had turned into a love-affair with a beginning and an end.
- Graham Greene
Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father. Not I, quoth my uncle. ââ'¬Ã¢â‚¬But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about.— No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby.
- Laurence Sterne
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?
- Dustin Hoffman
A poet never takes notes..you never take notes in a Love Affair.
- Robert Frost
It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.
- Maya Angelou
Religion may be a private affair, but the woik and word of God are the reconciliation of the world with God, as it was performed in Jesus Christ.
- Karl Barth
Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.
- Aldous Huxley
Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.
- CS Lewis