#mats

The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game. ↗

— David Miliband

#aid #big #british #contribution #date

In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen. ↗

— Marguerite Moreau

#formats #happen #lot #really #see

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#convinced #diplomats #foreign #future #i

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#commercial #down #everything #fit #formats

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it. ↗

— Kid Rock

#am #formats #get #going #gonna

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. ↗

— Will Rogers

#diplomats #essential #fall #finishing #flat

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. ↗

— Camillo di Cavour

#believe #deceiving #diplomats #discovered #i

The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#clean #covered #dishes #eat #filled

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#invented #simply #time #waste #waste time

Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#change #formats #going #labels #people