Diplomats Quote by David Lloyd George Download Open image “Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.” — David Lloyd George ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diplomats Time Waste
The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn't realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides,… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been fought with… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering with the… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them… — Michael Ben-Ari Copy Share Image
“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
One reason why so many people are unhappy, not knowing why, is that they have burdened their minds with resentments. These evil thoughts pile… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
The Iraqi regime was supporting terrorist cells all over the world. We had to expel three Iraqi diplomats from the Philippines because of evidence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than… — Dexter Filkins Copy Share Image