Ambassadors Quote by Francesco Guicciardini Download Open image “Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.” — Francesco Guicciardini ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambassadors Ears Eye States Statesmanship
I spent eight years at the U.N., so I understand that U.S. ambassadors have a lot of issues to cover. — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Ambassadors are idiots who possess only one skill: outkowtowing one another at official functions.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are coming to realise that foreign operations in today's world call for a total diplomacy ... Ambassadors can no longer be content with… — Chester Bowles Copy Share Image
“An ambassador is a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given an office by the Administration on condition… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose. — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart. — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received. — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I know at first hand how the impact of being bullied as a teenager can quite literally last a lifetime and I thought that… — Mark Feehily Copy Share Image
I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation. — Mike Love Copy Share Image
Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world… — Ann Veneman Copy Share Image
What would you do if you were President, and, on the first day of May, the Russian Ambassador presented you with a beautiful cake… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the… — Eddie Bernice Johnson Copy Share Image
The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You become an anti-Semite. And as powerful as the Israeli lobby is, the Saudi lobby is just as powerful. In fact, the Saudis probably… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
When I'm through with the Lee Greenwood Theatre, I won't do anything else in entertainment. Maybe I'll become an ambassador for the United States… — Lee Greenwood Copy Share Image