#ego

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#end #negotiation #only #peace #you

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER! ↗

— Omar Torrijos Herrera

#dead #find #knees #negotiations #never

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#between #category #certain #continuously #growing

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea. ↗

— John Hewson

#australia #been #better #i #korea

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#believe #celebrities #celebrity #comfortably #committing

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. ↗

— James Hillman

#admit #afraid #already #american #backward

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts. ↗

— Dee Hock

#cadre #committed #concepts #ego #emerging

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#because #category #crack #fell #fit

France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#around #been #between #bridge #common

Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#egotism #only #out #side #wrong