A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. Caskie Stinnett Politics, Forward, Hell
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost Age, Birthday, Woman
A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings. Robert Bourassa Rather, Tired, Week
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. Joseph Stalin Water, Sincere, Dry
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. Edward Heath Says, Thinks, Twice
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. John Keegan Trouble, Quality, Necessary
And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist. Geraldine Brooks Woman, Again, Learned
I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem. Madeleine Albright Yourself, Successful, Understand
A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it. Trygve Lie Cut, Neighbor, Notice
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on. Kathleen Turner Yourself, Father, Learn
My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena. John Roos While, Problems, Career
I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem. Ronnie Wood Nature, Bad, Help
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture. Walter Salles Life, Father, Culture
Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in
photography through photographing my young children. No formal training. Fay Godwin Mother, Father, Artist
In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk. Carey Williams Speak, Order, Number
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference. Madeleine Albright Learned, Difference, Huge
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. Peter Ustinov Days, Head, Sit
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations. Wentworth Miller Business, Works, Certain
My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism certainly not politics. Benazir Bhutto Politics, Father, Perhaps
I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself. John le Carre
Time, Age, Stress
I was never the diplomatic diplomat. Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Diplomatic
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain. Arabella Weir Life, Father, Fact
My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool. Greg Kinnear Family, Cool, Father
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends. Vikas Swarup Call, Writer, Weekends
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology. Oswald Spengler Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/diplomat.html#zzFTm0B5wgRMBmJQ.99
