#affair

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 Louis Stevenson

#anywhere #go #great #i #move

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

#anyone #autobiography #because #frank #frank sinatra

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#life #love #love-affairs #lovers #old-age

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#affairs #dating #jewelry #life #love

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#affairs #brain #doubt #foreign #foreign affairs

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#affairs #analyzing #development #economic #economic development

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#i #old #paper #route #security

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#affairs #beginning #careful #end #fail

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#could #few #friendships #love #survive

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#life #mask #secret #life