Diplomatic Language Quotes

#1. The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots ... "

Christopher Titus

#2. I would rather be fooled than not believe.

Mark Nepo

#3. Brilliant? Ha! Your about as bright as a black hole!' Ellen resorted.

Charles Ogden

#4. Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#5. More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

Wen Jiabao

#6. You must take personal responsibiity. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn

#7. Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Women are riddles - I only argued upon the common sense of the thing.

Frederick Marryat

#9. We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

Vladimir Putin

#10. The ability to cultivate the land is the growth of any nation.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.

Deena Metzger

#12. When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

Thomas Harris