#affair

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#affairs #alone #casual #detests #enough

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#alter #any #could #did #germanic

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ↗

— Plato

#anxiety #great #men #nothing #worthy

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#am #citizens #concise #constant #few

I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in. ↗

— James Purefoy

#business #finding #get #hotels #i

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#again #curtis #earlier #groups #institutes

The only love affair I have ever had was with music. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#ever #had #i #love #love affair

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ↗

— James Reston

#affairs #always #conform #devilish #foreign

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. ↗

— Duc De Richelieu

#essential #first #secrecy #state

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European. ↗