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When you look back ... on your love affairs ... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself. — Shirley Maclaine

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. — Winston Churchill

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences. — Napoleon Bonaparte

If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins. — Elvis Presley

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? — Robin Hobb

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes. — Erik Larson

As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction. — Michael Dirda

Naturally men are drowned in a storm, but it is a perfectly straightforward affair, and the depths of the sea are only water after all. — Virginia Woolf

I wish I could hold your hand outside this room, go for a walk, sit on a patio, watch the world go by. — Leylah Attar

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up. — George Bernard Shaw

Like any true story, the end of the affair is messy and unsatisfactory: — Neil Gaiman

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. — Anthony Bourdain

When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street. — Jessica Tandy

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair. — Moliere

Good content is the stuff of love affairs. — Tom Webster

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful — Marcus Tullius Cicero

By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good. — Angela Carter

Revolution
Is the affair of logical lunatics. — Wallace Stevens

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill. — Marcus Aurelius

And most of all...I learned that even in the darkest of nights, the stars will always shine. ~ Lynn — Ava Harrison

Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step. — William Dean Howells

When you're in love, you want to tell the world. My lifelong love affair with science — Carl Sagan

Vivien also knew that the affair was one-sided and that her feelings were not something she would ever share with him. — Kate Morton

But since the affairs of men rests still incertain,
Let's reason with the worst that may befall. — William Shakespeare

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate. — Croesus

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather. — Susan Sontag

Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with. — Buck Henry

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. — Eric Hoffer

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Who do you look like?" I laugh.

"No one. My father used to joke that my mother must have had an affair with the milkman. — Amy Ewing

It was not the lover she regretted,' wrote a Swiss imperial tutor, who understood their relationship. 'It was the friend. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance? — Stephen Rea

In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock. — Edward Abbey

Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness? — Patrick McGrath

A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs. — Calvin Miller

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel. — Weegee

On the other hand, this affair afforded great delight to Madame Magloire. — Victor Hugo

If the groom-to-be's views were actually considered, the wedding would be a far more relaxed affair, possibly involving go-carts. — Dave Barry

Life is the literary result of my passionate love affair between self and the universe... — Curtis R. Smith

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Promises," his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, "are like pie crusts - meant to be broken. — John Harvey

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. — Joseph Campbell

She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it. — Viraj J. Mahajan

The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship. — Nathaniel Branden

For above all else, the Christian life is a love affair of the heart. — John Eldredge

The love affair you seek is with yourself. — Alan Cohen

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore. — James M. Barrie

She didn't know how any woman anywhere conducted an affair without having the ear of a best friend. — Elin Hilderbrand

Eve. The Lee family reunion, never a lively affair, is interrupted — Agatha Christie

Love affairs are the real only education in life. — Marlene Dietrich

It's hard to hear the story of a love affair between two straight men, one of whom is the most divine woman alive. — Brian Topp

You break me the hardest,
make me the strongest, and keep me
the softest. — Coco J. Ginger

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions. — Eric Hoffer

It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had. — Yitzhak Rabin

Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you. — Arlene Francis

Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair? — Tennessee Williams

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state. — Joseph Brodsky

The lower the class of the affair, the more likely the band will be invited to eat. — Don Asher

Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair. — Hannah Whitall Smith

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well. — Brenda Blethyn

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation. — Kathleen Parker

The cause didn't seem sacred to her. The war did not seem to be holy affair. — Margaret Mitchell

Either foreswear fucking others or the affair is over. — Philip Roth

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul. — Thomas Moore

Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal affairs. — Vladimir Putin

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

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

There is no greater luxury than meditation. Meditation is the last luxury, because it is the ultimate love affair. — Osho

Man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others. — Arthur C. Clarke

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball. — Roy Keane

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

When a long book succeeds, the writer and reader are not just having an affair; they are married. — Stephen King

Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?' — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair. — Leo Tolstoy

The way I figure it when a man's in love with a girl, He's got a right to ask her to marry him. Any girl, Anybody's girl — Robert Mitchum

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion. — Alice Duer Miller

I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.' — Darren Star

For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move — Robert Davis Stevenson

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise. — Herbert Hoover

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same. — Betty White

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. — George Bernard Shaw

War isn't declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely. — Woodrow Wilson

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair. — Michael Graves

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth. — Stewart Udall

In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion. — Mardy Grothe

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them. — Jason Silva

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment — Aldous Huxley

Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones. — Chris Rock

Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky is one of the five things that happened in 1995 that Campbell believes opened the door to the future. — Anonymous

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship. — Richard Lugar

Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble. — Wallace Stevens

Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living — Aga Khan III

Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown — Osho

God was as visible in this affair as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool which he wills. He is not responsible to men. — Victor Hugo

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair. — Gore Vidal

I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary. — Alice Waters

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine. — Francoise Sagan

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. — Mary McCarthy

Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God. — Mark Shriver

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art ... — Michael Kimmelman