"The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is……" — Sheri S. Tepper
"The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment."
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26 Quotes by Sheri S. Tepper
Sheri S. Tepper has 26 quotes on this site.
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Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth…
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Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.
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Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to…
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I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive…
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I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the…
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To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can…
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Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.
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Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor…
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The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
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There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy…
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Science fiction still is an idea genre.
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I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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