Florence Nightingale
(1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
“a "mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs."”
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles
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“A foreign minister who knew little of foreign affairs and nothing of foreign policy.”
Joachim von Ribbentrop
(1893–1946) German general
Robert H. Jackson
“I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.”
Mae West
(1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Person-to-Person interview (CBS) with Charles Collingwood, September 1959 http://books.google.com/books?id=21R_KPMzH2EC&q="I've+always+had+a+weakness+for+foreign+affairs"&pg=PA82#v=onepage
“Poetry is foreign to us, we do not let it enter our daily lives.”
Muriel Rukeyser
(1913–1980) poet and political activist
The Life of Poetry (1949)
Context: Poetry is not; or seems not to be. But it appears that among the great conflicts of this culture, the conflict in our attitude toward poetry stands clearly lit. There are no guards built up to hide it. We call see its expression, and we can see its effects upon us. We can see our own conflict and our own resource if we look, now, at this art, which has been made of all the arts the one least acceptable.
Anyone dealing with poetry and the love of poetry must deal, then, with the hatred of poetry, and perhaps even Ignore with the indifference which is driven toward the center. It comes through as boredom, as name-calling, as the traditional attitude of the last hundred years which has chalked in the portrait of the poet as he is known to this society, which, as Herbert Read says, "does not challenge poetry in principle it merely treats it with ignorance, indifference and unconscious cruelty."
Poetry is foreign to us, we do not let it enter our daily lives.
“After I improved our foreign affairs, I shall improve the economy in Taiwan.”
Chen Shui-bian
(1950) Taiwanese politician
CKS Airport, June, 5, 2001
Pet Phrases, 2001
“My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos.”
George H. W. Bush
(1924–2018) American politician, 41st President of the United States
Quoted in Barry Hillenbrand (30 October 2000), " Global Warnings http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998337-3,00.html", Time; attributed as a 1992 remark about Bill Clinton and Al Gore
Henry George
(1839–1897) American economist
Source: Social Problems (1883), Ch. 21 : Conclusion
Context: The progress of civilization necessitates the giving of greater and greater attention and intelligence to public affairs. And for this reason I am convinced that we make a great mistake in depriving one sex of voice in public matters, and that we could in no way so increase the attention, the intelligence and the devotion which may be brought to the solution of social problems as by enfranchising our women.
“We tend to think of technological progress as an ever accelerating affair, but it just isn't so.”
William J. Bernstein
(1948) economist
Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 5, Tops: A History Of Manias, p. 130.