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  • Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

  • To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

    Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1961). “The Story of Civilization: The Age of Reason begins, 1558-1648”
  • I am saying that I am trying to minimize the donations to these groups by talking to diplomats. The transparency bill also has the purpose of enabling the Israeli public and members of Knesset to know whose interests certain organizations represent.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.

    Teacher   School   Boys  
  • But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Keen as charlatans...Napoleon said that war is too important to be left to the generals. We go on the assumption in the Senate that foreign relations are too important to be left to the diplomats...this question (on a novel cancer cure) is too important to leave purely to doctors.

    War   Cancer   Dark  
  • Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned.

    Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.
  • I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

  • Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

    Military   War   Writing  
  • Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator, what lessons would you draw? Qaddafi was the thug who came in from the cold, the one who (in the wake of Saddam's fall) renounced his nuclear program and was supposedly rehabilitated in the chancelleries of the West. He was a strong partner in the war on terrorism, according to U.S. diplomats. And what did Washington do? They overthrew him anyway.

    Strong   War   Party  
  • There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

    Three   Diplomats   Crabs  
    John Hay, “Distichs”
  • A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

  • An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

  • The level of our political trust [with China] is also very high. We have similar positions on major international issues or even, as diplomats say, our views are identical. We often have shared positions on key issues of the modern international agenda.

    Views   Issues   Keys  
    Source: www.rt.com
  • ...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much of that body of work had been fabricated well after the establishment of Islam in order to lend outside support to Koranic mythology.... [T]he Iranian journalist and diplomat Ali Dashti...repeatedly took his fellow Muslims to task for not questioning the traditional accounts of Muhammad's life, much of which he called myth-making and miracle-mongering.

  • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  • All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

    War   Failure   Diplomats  
    Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. February 28, 1991.
  • He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so pure and strong that it was capable of reordering the universe. He knew this, and that he lacked it, and yet as he stood in the courtyard of the Palazzo Venezia, watching diplomats file quietly out the gate, he was content, for he suspected that to command the profoundest love might in the end be far less beautiful a thing than to suffer its absence.

    Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me tell you why it is we distrust you.' Those words are candid and tough and they cannot have been easy to hear. But they are also a clear invitation to a new beginning and a new relationship that would be rooted in trust.

    Remarks on the Passing of Ronald Reagan, tape delivered on 11 June 2004
  • American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

    Feet   Brain   Diplomats  
  • In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

  • Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

    "Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.
  • I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

  • Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council.

  • I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.

    Source: www.fluxmagazine.com
  • It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

  • Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

    Military   War   Fall  
    Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr
  • [Donald] Trump`s incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, spoke on the phone with Russia`s ambassador the same day President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and imposed new sanctions on Russia.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

    "The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1996.
  • Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.

  • I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.

    Song   Optimistic   Two  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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