#fairs

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

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#anything #because #believe #credit #ever

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#destinies #guides #human #human affairs #opinion

People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#camp #civil #civil war #fairs #fans

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#dependence #happiness #helplessness #love #pathetic

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white. ↗

— Richard Kerry

#black #black and white #foreign #foreign affairs #inclined

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#current #dead #guide #long #long run

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#ripens #slowness #them #which

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. ↗

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

#fatal #human #human affairs #little #misunderstanding

World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world. ↗

— George Schultz

#alive #councils #country #developments #engaged