An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling of regional security to national organizations and expert institutions.
Juliet Hulme: Affairs are much more exciting than marriages. [Then, with disgust] Juliet Hulme: As Mummy can testify.
Cadet School Principal: Who wants to be like ex-cadet Yan? Young Lau Kin Ming: I do.
Keung: Remember this, if you see someone doing something but at the same time watching you... then he is a cop.
Lau Kin Ming: [raising his hands to police officers] I'm a cop.
Alicia: This is a very strange love affair. Devlin: Why? Alicia: Maybe the fact that you don't love me.
Turkish: You aren't exactly Mister Current Affairs are you, Tommy? "Mad Fist" went mad, and "The Gun," shot himself.
We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.
China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.
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.
I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.
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.
So many love affairs doesn't survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other.
Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It's really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.
