It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton supported concessions to the Castro brothers and got almost nothing in return for ending the embargo. — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Moore's only concession to the Democrats' role-playing is to deny that he is a Democrat, hoping enough Americans were taught by public… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone Copy Share Image
Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived,… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Part of diplomacy, the hard work of diplomacy is trying to extract whatever concessions you can get, and giving something the other… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If it's a low-brow bawdy comedy, it's got to stand the chance of succeeding as such. If it's an intellectual piece, a… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Their rhetoric is the same as always. The only difference is that the United States has granted them a whole series of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
In Burma, we are being told by so-called experts and some governments that we must be patient and that there can be… — Zoya Phan Copy Share Image
The alternative to fanaticism and to death is not some miraculous realization that someone has been wrong and he has to apologize.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
