Affair Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Men, Strange, Certain

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.216

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• 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

  Equality, Sisterhood, Rights

  Barnard College Commencement Address, May 1979.

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• Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

  Plautus

  Courage, Evil, Overcoming

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• 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

  Love, Relationship, One Love

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• The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Funny, Humor

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• An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

  John Updike

  Love, Doe, World

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Feb 08, 2015

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

  Maurice Ravel

  Love, Inspiring, Classical Music

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• 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

  Dance, Mirrors, Practice

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• No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

  Margaret Turnbull

  Mother, Father, Women

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• 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

  Eye, Color, Kingdoms

  Julio Cortazar (2014). “Hopscotch: A Novel”, p.480, Pantheon

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• I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

  John Newcombe

  Wimbledon, Love Affair

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• Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Long, Interesting

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• Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

  Mel Torme

  Movie, Uncles, Dad

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• 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

  Entrepreneur, Visionaries, Inventor

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• In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

  David Herbert Donald

  Religious, Prayer, President

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• I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

  Merle Haggard

  Littles, Love Affair

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• So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Sports, Player, Numbers

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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• Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

  Peter Bart

  Falling In Love, Cutting, Serious

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• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Rivers, Law, Guy

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• It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

  Gloria Stuart

  Rain, Struggle, Alaska

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• Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Running, Jobs, Simple

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• I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

  James McGreevey

  Men, Adults, Engaged

  Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004

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• Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

  Julie Christie

  America, Time Passing, Time Passes

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

  Chita Rivera

  Europe, Enough, Believable

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• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Confidence, Courage, Travel

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