#affair

He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of different temperaments and characters had been inspired to have lovers at his expense. He should be telling her, with the warmth of her body warming his, that his second wife had confessed to greater sexual pleasure when she remembered that she was deceiving him. ↗

— William Trevor

#cheating #marriage #men #relationships #women

When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#astounding #care #chronic #conditions #department

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#affairs #after #be happy #challenge #chiefly

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#advantage #affairs #conduct #contest #interests

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec. ↗

— Lucien Bouchard

#decided #end #i #participation #premier

I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs. ↗

— Harry F. Byrd

#economy #governmental #i #stand #strict

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#devoted #everything #family #i #i can

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#becomes #change #commonplace #communications #concern

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right. ↗

— Pam Gems

#drama #heart #nothing #olivier #right

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me. ↗

— Lynn Fontanne

#became #had #him #i #lasted