#affair

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#champagne #end #great #great love #love

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. ↗

— James Allen

#effort #efforts #human #human affairs #measure

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#cause #contrary #earthly #last #longer

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

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#chart #destiny #determination #good #greatest

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children. ↗

— Joycelyn Elders

#affair #children #fetus #get #love

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#american #american public #because #between #entrepreneurs

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state. ↗

— Cardinal Richelieu

#essential #first #secrecy #state

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. ↗

— Rosalind Russell

#failure #funeral #private #public #success

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