#affair

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#also #attend #china #countries #directed

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own. ↗

— Willis Lamb

#affairs #allowing #find #following #friends

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#childless #desire #divorced #figured #got

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#all night #anybody #ask #bed #book

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#international-relations #national-policy #theology

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away. ↗

— Aeschylus

#alas #away #compare #dash #fortunate

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. ↗

— Aesop

#before #common #easier #entrance #exit

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#continue #europe #fell #i #love

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#minister #ministers #most #naval #states

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#affairs #am #concern #convinced #englishman