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704 Diplomat Quotes

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

Tempted Impulsive Sheer Suffer
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

Proposals Time Rejected Again
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Always Experience Leaders Mean
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

Agree Believes Collectively Consensus
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

Achieve Anything Getting Someone
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
Better Disliked Pitied Than
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Ear Elegance Flexibility Glued
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Dialogue Distinction Prove Tasks
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Day New New Day Strength
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Beauty Believe Belongs Dreams
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Average Discuss Events Great
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Cannot Must Things Think
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Begin Cease Contribution Die
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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Bag Her Hot Hot Water
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Ask Fair Not Fair Others
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In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Choices Die Ends Lives
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Always Individual Obligation Only
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Built Character Courageously Experience
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Anyone Become Else Even
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

By-Product A Goal Happiness
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Anyway Criticized Feel Heart
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Both Cannot Justice Must
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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Afraid Care Does Fear
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Admire Admires Knowing Length
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Ambition Any Cannot Despicable
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Actors are one family over the entire world.
Actor Entire Entire World Family
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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Be The First First First Step I Think
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It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

More Need Vacation Vocation
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Alive Back Curiosity His
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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Character Criterion Man Only
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The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Bible Gave Hours I Think
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Education Every Family Information
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More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

Before Common Destiny Ever
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It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

Against Arguing Been Globalization
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We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

Because Build Cannot Every
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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Abject Billions Countries Developing
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

Between Calculations Choose Driven
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Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Build Business Civil Community
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

Abroad African Armies Because
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More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Countries Development Equality More
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We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Capacity Deal Find Means
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The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

Able Advantage Alone Being
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Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

Above Arise Both Commitment
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If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Attempt Chart Course Decades
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We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Alive Better Hope Keep
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In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

Failed Greatest Hour Need
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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Central Conditions Democracy Development
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In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Country Dear Holds Important
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We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Children Future Going Leave
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To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Choose Get Go Know
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