Quotes by Diplomats - Page 4

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
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other who he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry Kissinger
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 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
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolò Machiavelli
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.
Daniele Varè
Now the frosty stars are gone: I have watched them one by one Fading on the shores of Dawn. Round and full the glorious sun Walks with level step the spray Through his vestibule of Day.
Bayard Taylor
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
Jean Giraudoux
Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
James Russell Lowell
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds not stones are the true monuments of the great.
John Lothrop Motley
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect days Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune And over it softly her warm ear lays.
James Russell Lowell
The almighty dollar that great object of universal devotion throughout our land seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.
Washington Irving
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving
Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
Carl T. Rowan
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
George W. Ball
So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.
Sir Auckland Geddes
Man passes away his name perishes from record and recollection his history is as a tale that is told and his very monument becomes a ruin.
Washington Irving
Good luck needs no explanation.
Shirley Temple Black
Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.
James Russell Lowell
The loving are the daring.
Bayard Taylor
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Harold Nicolson
To be a good diarist one must have a little snouty sneaky mind.
Harold Nicolson
Let us be of good cheer remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell
Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjöld
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.
Charles Yost
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
Jan Masaryk
Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often in point of fact useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.
Henry Kissinger
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
James Russell Lowell
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only menace is inertia.
St. John Perse
Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.
Niccolò Machiavelli
If ignorance is indeed bliss it is a very low grade of the article.
Tehyi Hsieh
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.
Otto von Bismarck
Humour is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Romain Gary