#scandal

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy. ↗

— Matt Damon

#alone #because #been #even #happy

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. ↗

— Robert Cecil

#consisted #disease #scandal #venereal #virtue

They'll totally hire me if I say I got fired from my job on the Hill because of a sex scandal. ↗

— Jessica Cutler

#fired #got #hill #hire #i

You kissed me, and I opened my eyes and thought you were Death. You were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, and I clung to the memory of you because it gave me comfort—the only bit of happiness I had ever had. You were my secret fantasy, my lover. My story… Lord Death is you, and the woman he stalks…is me.” “Why have you come,” he asked, “when you now know the truth?” “Because when you saved me, you forged a link between us. I don’t believe it will ever break.” “Bella,” he whispered, “I couldn’t allow you to take your life. Couldn’t bear the thought of existing in a world that you did not. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#isabella #jude #seduction-and-scandal #beauty

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal. ↗

— David R. Gergen

#historically #hubris #know #marred #scandal

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals. ↗

— David R. Gergen

#now #scandals #seeing #seen

The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative. ↗

— John Linder

#countries #deplorable #examples #few #human

People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#because #bringing #equate #his way #hotel

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#amazed #barack #hear #i #i am

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#chords #compared #conversation #love #may