#affair

Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point. ↗

— Lloyd Cutler

#affairs #asked #assistant #became #because

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#had #i #man #sort #who

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#affairs #because #beginning #during #foreign

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghanistan #america #congressman #democratically #divide

In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#annual #budget #deficit #department #different

The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#authorizing #consent #derive #exercised #federal

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#career #handle #i #long #music

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

A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#sex #love

A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute. ↗

— Rachilde

#caprice #love #lust #passion #love