Good Diplomat Quotes

#1. A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

Walter Lippmann

#2. Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

Carl T. Rowan

#4. Doom scenarios, even though they might be true, are not politically or psychologically effective. The first step ... is to make us love the world rather than to make us fear for the end of the world.

Gary Snyder

#5. A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

Steve Lacy

#6. I wondered if they had my name on database now, with an alert next to it: nutter.

Mark Edwards

#7. His vacant eyes took on a more sinister look, taking notice of us for the first time, a stranger in our midst, a monster.

Patricia Hamill

#8. I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it.

George R R Martin

#9. To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomat - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know how much oil to mix in with one's vinegar.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that.

Paulo Coelho

#11. A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.

Solomon Short