Quotes About Affair

Bus travel is easy in Dalmatia. It is a decidedly middle-class affair over good roads and with dependable schedules

A poet never takes notes..you never take notes in a Love Affair.

I have a huge relationship with Brazil; it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific martial art like capoeira in Hollywood movies was something important to me.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give love back - it's a romantic situation.

The only casualty attendant upon the affair was the death of one man and the wounding of several others by the explosion of a gun in the firing of a salute to their flag by the garrison on evacuating the fort the day after the surrender

My dad is shagging your aunt, probably right now. That makes us almost family.

Kankedort (n.) An awkward situation or affair. I take comfort in the fact that even when the editors of the OED do not have the answer to something, they manage to impart this lack of knowledge in a particularly graceful fashion, thereby diffusing what would otherwise be a bit of a kankedort. The etymology for this work reads "of unascertained etymology". see also: zugzwang

This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.

Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

It was an unnatural time to be awake, ... It meant nothing good. He associated it with emergency, bereavement, conspiracy, flight; the sad skulk away at the end of a one-night affair.

men of their generation, quick to see a slight, quick to draw their swords. But a dawn affair of honor was

Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father.   Not I, quoth my uncle.   ââ'¬â€But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about.—   No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby.

You can take the girl out of St. Athanasius, etc. —Who was he, do you happen to know? Not Herr Bratwurst, Saint Whatchamacallit. —Athanasius. No idea. So yes, I'm reasonably certain she had an affair, although I don't think it was the kind that would put Antony and Cleopatra in the shade. But whatever

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

You know what you remind me of," Odile said to them as they scooted into the booth. "Those sneaky co-stars having an on-set affair who are always so careful not to let anyone photograph them together because they don't want the paparazzi to have any material by which to draw inferences." "You know what you remind me of?" Jenny replied coolly. "The paparazzi." Odile: "Touché.

Now I knew that an emotional affair was even more dangerous. It created a need to share every thought and feeling with another person. It seduced you into being entirely vulnerable while still feeling entirely safe.

To talk of going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat is not really heroic at all, but merely a refusal to face the future. The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live. It is only from this question, with its responsibility towards history, that fruitful solutions can come, even if for the time being they are very humiliating.

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

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

Maybe life is just a quiet affair, interspersed with moments of great happiness and grief. Maybe it is the quiet that needs to emerge again, to balance the current run of craziness.