Quotes About Brinkmanship

#1. People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

Vaclav Klaus

#2. [John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

Richard Armour

#3. The transparency and intelligibility of a country with a free market economy can reassure its neighbors that it is not going on a war footing, which can defuse a Hobbesian trap and cramp a leader's freedom to engage in risky bluffing and brinkmanship.

Steven Pinker

#4. Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

Nathan Myhrvold

#5. I love to see when ya move with the rhythm; I love to see when you're dancin' from within; It gives great joy to feel such sweet togetherness,
everyone doin' and they're doing their best!

Bob Marley

#6. I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don't know or haven't made the effort to understand.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#7. Athos, according to his system, neither encouraged nor dissuaded him.

Alexandre Dumas

#8. Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.

Leila Sales

#9. Time management is the major difference between the rich and poor

Sunday Adelaja

#10. The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

John Buchanan Robinson

#11. For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects ... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!

William Kircher

#12. Young Mr. Conn Maxwell, who has just returned from Terra, needs no introduction to any of you," he began. Then, having established that, he took the next ten minutes to introduce Conn.

H. Beam Piper

#13. Do you have a band-aid?" he asked Roni. Her brow puckered "No why?" "i just scraped my knee falling for you

Suzanne Wright

#14. Discretion is the better part of valor.

William Shakespeare