Characterized By Diplomacy Quotes & Sayings

Esperanza, that you, — Pam Munoz Ryan

This is the kind we like best. They have a certain gaiety to them, a power of invention, they don't care what people think. They have escaped, though what it is they've escaped from isn't clear to us. We think that their bizarre costumes, their verbal ties, are chosen, and that when the time comes we also will be free to choose. — Margaret Atwood

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before. — Alicia Witt

Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back? — Alexandra Kleeman

We both know you can't split a bookstore. (I don't even share shelf space.) — Mary Jane Hathaway

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears. — Eugene Ormandy

When I say it's hard to believe in Jesus, I mean it's hard to believe in Jesus's ideas - in his way of saving the world. For Christians it's not hard to believe in Jesus as the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity - all the Christological stuff the church hammered out in the first five centuries. That's not hard for us. What's hard is to believe in Jesus as a political theologian. It's hard because his ideas for running the world are so radically different from anything we are accustomed to. — Brian Zahnd

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets. — William Howard Taft

I'm not their slave," the man mutters.
"I am," I say. "That's why I killed Cato ... and he killed Thresh ... and he killed Clove ... and she tried to kill me. It just goes around and around, and who wins? Not us. Not the districts. Always the capitol. But I'm tired of being a piece in their games. — Suzanne Collins

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan. — Jim Fowler

'Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. — Stephen Jay Gould

My shows are not narratives. — Brian Eno

In early sobriety I heard that if you have an idea after ten p.m., it is probably not a good idea - and this was before e-mail. — Anne Lamott

We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else. — Antonio Perez