#airs

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#affairs #because #carter #center #conservation

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#beginning #brings #confined #every #had

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs. ↗

— Tina Fey

#audience #comedy #down #dress #her

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

#afghanistan #ankles #get #government #here

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#human #human affairs #language #much #politicians

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. ↗

— Henry Clay

#competition #greater #human #human powers #mankind

I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#go #i #kind #like #people

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

— W. C. Fields

#bull #comes #face #man #must

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#change #front #hairstyle #i #just

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#backward #commissions #dared #down #fall