Diplomacy Quote by Frank Herbert Download Open image “Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy.” — Frank Herbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diplomacy Speak Thinking
Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking. — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at… — Bo Bennett Copy Share Image
Talking and diplomacy is often seen as a concession in America, in a way that it is not in other places. — Ben Rhodes Copy Share Image
When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is not merely talking somebody into something; it's talking to somebody from a position of strength. You put your power on the table… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have. — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I will tell you this only once. Homosexuals have been among the best warriors in our history, the berserkers of last resort. They were… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Russia may very well be front and center again in 2020 as they were in 2016 regarding interference in America's presidential election. But the… — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Expecting accountability from the UN system was akin to expecting a blind dog to catch a flying Frisbee.” — Michael Soussan Copy Share Image
Kolkata is a musical city. What I like about people here is the lack of diplomacy. Some of the best Indian classical musicians belong… — Sukhwinder Singh Copy Share Image
Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image