#affair

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#anything #because #believe #credit #ever

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#dependence #happiness #helplessness #love #pathetic

There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star. ↗

— Gabriela Sabatini

#also #always #course #created #famous

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#alarm #any #chapters #condition #end

With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs. ↗

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

#his #keep #king #kingdom #leadership

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

— William Scranton

#citizens #direct #display #government #interest

Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It's really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#because #control #definitely #devastating #feeling

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#affairs #before #breath #does #draws

It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair. ↗

— Gloria Stuart

#claude #friendly #great #great love #love

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

#dealt #fiction #first #green #homosexuality