"Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy."

-- Charles Stross

#Lawyer Quotes #Diplomacy Quotes

“When I hear complaints about less liquidity, remember there is such a thing as too much liquidity.”

Source : 1971 In the Observer, 24 Sep.
“Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.”
“Salvation for our educational ills... will have to come from within an educational community willing to say we have met the enemy and it is us.”
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.”
“When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.”

Source : James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.40, Courier Corporation
“Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.”
“It's always the same when you don't get enough snaps. If we can get it going, stay on the field, the beauty of the offense is they'll all get involved in it. You've got to have drives, you've got to make first downs. You can't get players involved if you only have three plays and out. That's not real good.”
“Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.”

Source : Charles Olson (1997). “The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems”, p.106, Univ of California Press

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