#diploma

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#divorce #itself #new #new york #virtue

You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats... ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#beethoven #diplomats #freedom #life #love

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#begin #darfur #diplomatic #ensure #for the people

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#assembled #body #diplomats #men #mistakes

War is failure of diplomacy. ↗

— John Dingell

#failure #war

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#because #been #best #debate #diplomatic

A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#been #cabinet #diplomat #effected #find

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America. ↗

— George W. Bush

#credible #diplomacy #doubt #effective #must

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#america #did #diplomacy #fair #i

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them. ↗

— Paul Claudel

#cannot #diplomats #fortunate #long #noses