Good Diplomatic Quotes

#1. I don't think America should be the policeman of the world, but we have to be engaged and we have to be a leader, and that comes from strong economic growth, a strong military, good diplomatic efforts, and integrating our business community. I just think it's a whole new paradigm.

John Kasich

#2. Sometimes Jane wished she were good at diplomatic speeches. She wished she'd mastered coquettish looks and innocent smiles. But she hadn't. She was singularly bad at those forms of persuasion. She was good at handing out money and opinions.

Courtney Milan

#3. Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. A woman must marry the man who loves her, but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness.

Mariama Ba

#5. Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.

Carolyn Hart

#6. I tend to put my foot in my mouth. I'm not good at being diplomatic. I tend to piss people off.

Pink

#7. Cats are the visible angels of the cities! There is always an eye of a cat observing you somewhere!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.

Lech Walesa

#9. A good zoo is a place of carefully worked-out coincidence: exactly where an animal says to us, "Stay out!" ... we say to it, "Stay in!" with our barriers. Under such conditions of diplomatic peace, all animals are content and we can relax and have a look at each other.

Yann Martel

#10. I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

Helen Keller

#11. Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

Saul Bellow

#12. More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

May Sarton

#13. Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

Keith Ablow

#14. I always say that it's not really been a good day if you haven't caused a major diplomatic incident by lunchtime,' Otto said with a grin.

Mark Walden

#15. Obsession is such a naughty word - it's a very intense word. I'm obsessed with music, always have been. I can't lie. And I'm obviously obsessed with my child, my child's life and the little things that he does.

Kate Hudson

#16. 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

#17. It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service.

W. Somerset Maugham

#18. I looked in the mirror once more. The new clothes felt like salt on the raw wounds, but they covered the worst of it, and I looked less alarming, less confronting, less hideous. I smiled at the mirror. I was practising, trying to remember what it was like to be me.

Gregory David Roberts

#19. Everything ends this way in France - everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs - everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

Jean Anouilh

#20. Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.

Uri Orbach

#21. I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!

Eddie Money

#22. 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