#negotiating

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#absurd #always #could #death #humanity

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are. ↗

— John Prescott

#get #god #i #negotiating #only

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing. ↗

— Mike Simpson

#allies #also #bear #deals #emotional

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#basically #businessmen #get #got #negotiating

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#change

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#getting #means #negotiating #opponent #your

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#accepted #because #been #considered #country

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea. ↗

— John Hewson

#australia #been #better #i #korea

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. ↗

— James Cameron

#budget #camera #cheesy #director #everything

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#down #get #negotiating #opposite #peace