#diplomacy

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#empowerment #life #relationships #subtlety #life

War is failure of diplomacy. ↗

— John Dingell

#failure #war

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

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#direct #extraordinarily #first #going #i

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

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#comes #crying #diplomacy #disperse #embassy

The only way to speak is diplomatically, and British is the imperial English tongue. I have expelled all claims to American independence from my pronunciation, and I have never felt more liberated. ↗

— Bauvard

#british #diplomacy #english #freedom #funny

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#art

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us. ↗

— Robert Byron

#nationalism #reason #taboos #business

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting. ↗

— Ptahhotep

#courageous #crafty #diplomacy #fighthing #heroic