#macy

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#letters #funny

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. ↗

— Will Rogers

#diplomacy #find #nice #rock #saying

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. ↗

— Will Rogers

#diplomats #essential #fall #finishing #flat

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. ↗

— Will Rogers

#fall #flat #out #take #thing

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. ↗

— Kofi Busia

#deceiving #diplomacy #friends #means #nearly

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#characters #events #fiction #intimacy #places

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#diplomacy #power #restraining

The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

#any #arab #because #cause #crucial

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. ↗

— George Santayana

#always #comparable #everything #friends #friendships

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#diplomacy #english #french #international #international language