Good Diplomacy Quotes

#1. Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.

Jasper Fforde

#2. Relationship Principle 6
Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential.

Sherry Argov

#3. An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Norman Davies

#4. You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Robert MacNeil

#5. I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair.

Jonah Goldberg

#6. Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

Amber Benson

#7. Isn't this exactly why you chose not to contest my claim?"
"Damn straight. I don't have your touch for diplomacy."
Doc barked out a laugh. "If you think Drake's diplomatic, my boy, it's a good thing you're his second. I'd hate to see what you'd consider diplomacy.

Chudney Thomas

#8. It is good diplomacy to allow our rulers their customs without adopting them ourselves.

Susan Leona Fisher

#9. I do not really think about age. I am just sort of trying to get as much done before I get old and can't.

Devon Bostick

#10. What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

Jocelyn Murray

#11. It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

Ming-Dao Deng

#12. Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.

Jesse Jackson

#13. I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I believe that it's our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity.

Terry Tempest Williams

#15. My first writing jobs were writing Tom Arnold specials for HBO, so I love working there.

Judd Apatow

#16. Who needs sense when you have alliteration?

Mark Forsyth

#17. Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

Euripides

#18. People online will tell you what they really think - there's no diplomacy. They're honest; it's good to have the feedback immediately.

Giuseppe Zanotti

#19. I will use my mind, not just my regular brain lobes.

Peter Bognanni

#20. As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.

Mike Lowell

#21. Patience is no small, fell-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can't work together and society can't function at all. With it, we create the possibility of peace between people and between nations.

M.J. Ryan