#affair

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#ambitious #contract #covering #devious #discovery

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

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

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers. ↗

— Li Peng

#affairs #billion #countries #few #international

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. ↗

— Plautus

#affairs #every #every man #friend #however

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#any #carries #europe #influence #italy

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#affairs #development #geology #ground #happens

For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure. ↗

— Brady Udall

#love #love