Quotes of: International-affairs Keyword

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

Sam: What thousands must die, so that Caesar may become the great.

Infernal Affairs

Dr. Lee Sum Yee: I'll dream of you, Officer Yan.

Infernal Affairs

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

Peggy Lipton

You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.

Lee Child

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

William H. Macy

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Virginia Woolf

Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Dating is probably the most fraught human interaction there is. You're sizing people up to see if they're worth your time and attention, and they're doing the same to you. It's meritocracy applied to personal life, but there's no accountability. We s...

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

The words trailed off, and she smiled helplessly as she waited for him to rescue her from her own sentence. Nate's thoughts had been far removed from relationship issues, and he didn't feel like getting drawn into another of these conversations. He a...

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

A prince ought to have two fears one from within on account of his subjects the other from without on account of external powers. From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies and if he is well armed he will have good frie...

The Prince

Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the ...

Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents

There's a simplicity and a sense of adventure to being alone, and I sometimes envy you for having it, as you explore Paris. Even when you're getting your heart broken, you can still wake up and not know what's going to happen next.

Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults

Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy,...

A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry

Although distortion of the past is widespread, the most common travesty is one of omission, wherein populist leaders neglect to mention the crimes committed by their own side or recollect them in such a way that evades accepting full responsibility. ...

Writing History in International Criminal Trials

I consider myself to be an international woman.

Gloria Reuben

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

The Eyre Affair

disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;

The End of the Affair

Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?

The End of the Affair

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

The End of the Affair

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

F. Scott Fitzgerald