The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair basically a chore. Buy mother a book dad a new tie my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs things today might have been different.

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere because especially in national security and international affairs it's male-dominated.

You can find women who have never had an affair but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

One can find women who have never had one love affair but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans all humans... starting with the president Mohammed Morsi and all officials and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.

Your law may be perfect your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill and yet without individual acquaintance with men their haunts and habits the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult slow and expensive.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over you have affairs with people and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older and it's not just having a daughter it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs politics investment and technology.

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves or by any new technology.

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

Ladies and gentlemen it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia and I'm proud of them.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me and attracted me.

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

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

You know women are as promiscuous as men and yet of course people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

While the wider global environment is worrying we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.