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Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. -- Rosalind Russell
The only love affair I have ever had was with music. -- Maurice Ravel
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. -- Herman Melville
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks. -- Julio Cortazar
Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown -- Rajneesh
I had started my love affair with Wimbledon. -- John Newcombe
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. -- Plato
Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November. -- James McGreevey
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. -- Plautus
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do. -- Bradley Whitford
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. -- Lionel Blue
We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children. -- Joycelyn Elders
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. -- Andrew Carnegie
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. -- Ambrose Bierce
If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore. -- James M. Barrie
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. -- John Updike
I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone. -- Celia Johnson
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. -- James Allen
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. -- Theodore Sturgeon
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
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. -- Agnes de Mille
I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee. -- Mike Coffman
I didn't say [Steve Scalise] was fanatically pro-Israel. I said I wouldn't vote for because he supports state of Israel which has committed terrorism against American in the Lavon Affair. -- David Duke
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. -- Hannah Arendt
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words. -- Alicia Vikander
I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. -- Erma Bombeck
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
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. -- Thomas Moore
Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not. -- Daniel Craig
I watch so much television. My DVR is full. I love putting my kids to bed, so I can sit on the couch with my wife and we can dissect The Affair, The Americans, House of Cards, or whatever it is. I'm so lucky. -- Scott Foley
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. -- Thomas Mann
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair. -- Freddy Fender
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth. -- Stewart Udall
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. -- Mario Benedetti
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing. -- Ron Chernow
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
If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy! -- George Clooney
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. -- Joseph Campbell
I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything. -- Angelina Jolie
I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face! -- Bobbi Brown
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls. -- Archibald Hill
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. -- Ray Bradbury
I don't want to sound too silly or pretentious about this, but, you know, I love being in Paris. I love working at Louis Vuitton. I love fashion. That's why I do it. No one's forcing me to do this. And nobody forces anyone to buy it. It's a real love affair. -- Marc Jacobs
I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. -- David Duchovny
I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi. -- Hugh Laurie
Mysterious affair, electricity. -- Samuel Beckett
Salvation is a family affair. -- Bruce R. McConkie
Love is an affair of credulity. -- Ovid
What a day-to-day affair life is. -- Jules Laforgue
Putting is a very personal affair. -- Greg Norman
I want to have an affair. -- Pella Grace
Photography is a love affair with life. -- Burk Uzzle
Life without illusion is a ghostly affair. -- Virginia Woolf
My longest love affair: with a book. -- Rebecca Mead
Genius is mainly an affair of energy. -- Matthew Arnold
Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics. -- Wallace Stevens
Art without life is a poor affair. -- Henry James
Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair. -- Olusegun Obasanjo
Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair. -- James A. Baldwin
The Ultimate Truth is, ultimately, a minority affair. -- Fakeer Ishavardas
Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair. -- Dorothy Day
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. -- David Mitchell
There is no justification for having an affair. -- Shanola Hampton
The love affair you seek is with yourself. -- Alan Cohen
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair. -- Moliere
The ideal love affair should be conducted by post. -- George Bernard Shaw
Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy. -- Cherie Priest
Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional. -- Rebekah Brooks
A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween. -- Joshua Homme
Make life as a lifelong love affair with yourself. -- Debasish Mridha
I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair. -- Merle Haggard
Did you have an extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky? -- Paula Jones
The great affair, we always find, is to get money. -- Adam Smith
Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings. -- Walter Raleigh
Marriage is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) -- Joseph Campbell
He was having an illicit affair... with his own mate. -- J.R. Ward
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) -- Joseph Campbell
I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man. -- James McGreevey
The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well. -- Brenda Blethyn
Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit. -- Criss Jami
I'm pretty sure my love affair with science-fiction started with ET. -- Shiloh Walker
Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious. -- Mason Cooley
I canâ??t imagine a passionate affair with a native man -- Lena Dunham
Once upon a time, man had a love affair with fire. -- Robert R. McCammon
Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office. -- Dave Barry
I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done. -- Tony Scott
I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years. -- John Denver
Me and my harp was a love affair from way back. -- Little Walter
At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass! -- Joan Rivers
I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd. -- Ronnie Wood
I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European. -- Chita Rivera
In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it. -- Ned Rorem
There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. -- Albert Einstein
Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality. -- Peter Lindbergh
Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it. -- David Quammen
God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God. -- Desmond Tutu
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part. -- Mavis Gallant
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life. -- John Calvin
love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end. -- Graham Greene
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are. -- Philip Larkin
Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair? -- Cole Porter
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. -- Robert Frost
To be a poet is a love affair, not a desire to dare. -- Debasish Mridha
In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it -- Epictetus
I know I will never have an affair with a married man again. -- Monica Lewinsky
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair. -- Alfred Kazin
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic. -- Mignon McLaughlin

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