Quotes by Diplomats - Page 3

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
James Russell Lowell
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Talleyrand
90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger
If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.
J. K. Galbraith
Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
James Russell Lowell
Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.
Charles Yost
It isn't enough to talk about peace one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it one must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.
Charles C. Pinckney
Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
John Adams
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy geography natural history and naval architecture navigation commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting poetry music architecture statuary tapestry and porcelain.
John Adams
Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.
Peter Paul Rubens
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Nikita Ivanovich Panin
When I was fourteen I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.
Shirley Temple Black
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russell Lowell
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon Voltaire or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.
Talleyrand
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
James Russell Lowell
I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency it will be okay.
Henry Kissinger
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down we don't move today is today always is today.
Octavio Paz
One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.
James Russell Lowell
The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Nicholas Murray Butler
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.
Eleanor Roosevelt
If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.
John Adams
It's not worthy of human beings to give up.
Alva Reimer Myrdal
O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?
James Weldon Johnson
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
Sir Richard Burton
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
James Russell Lowell
Somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjöld
That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.
Owen Meredith
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry Kissinger
You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one from the beginning of time has had security.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.
Arthur K. Watson
Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
Otto von Bismarck
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjöld
You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined courageous and hard-working. Never be fainthearted. Be resolute but never bitter.... Permit no one to dissuade you from pursuing the goals you set for yourselves. Do not fear to pioneer to venture down new paths of endeavor.
Ralph J. Bunche
When you approach a problem strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice assemble and learn the facts of the situation make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest and then stick to it.
Chester Bowles
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
James Russell Lowell
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
James Russell Lowell
The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
J. K. Galbraith
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
John Quincy Adams
Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
The world is like a mirror frown at it and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles too.
Herbert Samuel
This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!
Eleanor Roosevelt
Politics is not an exact science.
Otto von Bismarck
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger
A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
James Russell Lowell
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Talleyrand
90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger
If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.
J. K. Galbraith