“My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.” WorldStatesMotherFatherPolicyRegardAffairAidsBranchesDepartmentEconomistWorld Affairs Author:Jennifer Gilmore
“There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.” FeelsMadeStatesFactsTurnsVictoryOppositesResponsibleRegardLuckAffairCreditCuriousFaithfulAllies Author:William Matthews
“Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.” PeopleMayEndsCountryStatesPoliticalDesireInterestLinesWhiteUnitedEffortForeverPolicyColorLet MeRegardSouthAffairDistinctionSouthernBehalfEarnestWipeTruestCountrymenBest EffortNorth And South Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.” HumansPayRegardAffairRidiculous Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)
“When it comes to your personal life, such as love and romance, girls should take a tip from the men and keep their affairs to themselves. Any man worth his salt regards his private life as his own. To kiss a girl and run and tell would mark him as a cad. Why doesn't that apply to girls also?” MenShouldRunningRomanceGirlHe ManKissingMarkRegardAffairSaltPersonal LifePrivate LifeCad Author:Carole Lombard
“Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is qualified for leadership, when it comes to posts of authority such as presidency, Muslim scholars unanimously agree that it is impermissible for a woman to assume such a post because in this case she is in charge of her people's affairs.” PeopleIfsMenPoliticalCasesRightsEqualAuthorityMen And WomenRegardAgreeAssumingIslamAffairPostsScholarPresidencyQualifiedDifferentiatePolitical Rights Author:Yusuf al-Qaradawi
“He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.” WorldLooksChangeRegardAffairFirmStableMistaken Author:Francesco Guicciardini
“In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact, to have any. In regard to sex-love affairs, to marriage and family relations, to business, to politics, and to virtually everything else that is important in his life, he must try to discover what his god and his clergy would like him to do; and he must primarily do their bidding.” TryingPersonsImportantRealFactsSexReligiousViewsRelationRegardAffairLove AffairClergyBiddingPresumptuousReligious PersonMarriage And FamilySex Love Author:Albert Ellis
“A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.” Would BeLibertyTaxesRegardAffairFavorsProgressiveRegulationOutrageousMeddlingPaternalism Author:H. L. Mencken
“The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of a confederacy, will at all times be ready, with perfect good humor, and an unbiased regard to the public weal, to execute the resolutions of decrees of the general authority." "This tendency is not difficult to be accounted for," Publius argues, "It has its origin in the love of power.” HumansPersonsDifficultPerfectTeachHuman NatureParticularReadyMembersAuthorityConstitutionRegardAffairArguingTendenciesAll TimeAdministrationResolutionDecreeGood HumorUnbiased Author:Alexander Hamilton
“I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.” MenWellsKindMayWarDeathMorningCoupleThousandRegardAffairCivil WarHardened Book:War is hell! Source: War is hell!
“Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among men, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve thee in evil; but if indeed they do not exist, or if they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence? But Gods there are, undoubtedly, and they regard human affairs; and have put it wholly in our power, that we should not fall into what is truly evil.” IfsMenShouldHumansMomentsFallUniverseEvilConcernRegardAffairGods WillTheeGoing AwayProvidence Author:Marcus Aurelius