#affair

My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was fond of the Army. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#affairs #army #chairman #father-in-law #fond

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. ↗

— Saint Basil

#affairs #comfort #derived #find #human

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs. ↗

— Charlie Byrd

#carefully #financial #frugal #learn #manage

While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#economic #environment #global #global environment #our

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#assure #case #european #heard #i

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#about #abstraction #affair #also #cause

La gloriosa donna della mia mente ↗

— Sylvain Reynard

#love #love-at-first-sight #professor #romance #student-teacher-affair

His question reminded me of how easy he had been to deceive, so easy that he seemed to me almost a conniver at his wife's unfaithfulness, as the man who leaves loose banknotes in a hotel bedroom connives at theft, and I hated him for the very quality which had once helped my love. ↗

— Graham Greene

#unfaithfulness #love

I won't stay in with married men any more said the wise girl they're too agreeable, it's a little too much like curling up with the good book. You mean a good book Oh, dear, did I say the good book sighed the witch. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#affairs #bible #cheating #good-book #reading

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ↗

— James Reston

#affairs #always #conform #devilish #foreign