"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

#Quality Quotes #Diplomats Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior”
“If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.”
“Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.”

Source : Song: Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness, Album: Iceman, 1991
“The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.”
“Itâ€™s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your readerâ€™s imagination when youâ€™re telegraphing your punches.”
“My purpose is to show people that you can take what God put inside of you, inside your heart, and you can live by it! Like, literally. Somebody might like to make shoes or make hats. You can literally live by that gift and no go get a nine to five job. I just to keep my purpose in front of everything that I do, and that is just reminding people that it's possible. That's what it's all about for me.”
“As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.”

Source : Frances Hodgson Burnett (1925). “In the Garden ...”
“A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.”

Source : "Confessions of a Conjuror". Book by Derren Brown, 2009.

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