#affair

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#any #consequences #each #extension #into

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#become #correction #dearest #dearest friend #faults

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#advantages #affairs #being #being done #desire

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#affair #discover #down #else #emotions

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#human #human affairs #serious #seriously #taken

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#amendment #congress #continues #national #national sovereignty

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different. ↗

— Alice Paul

#affairs #anything #been #came #crisis

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ↗

— Plato

#anxiety #great #men #nothing #worthy

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. ↗

— Duc De Richelieu

#essential #first #secrecy #state

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European. ↗

— Chita Rivera

#believable #enough #european #i #love