"A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them."

-- Walter Lippmann

#Success Quotes #Winning Quotes #Victory Quotes

“Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.”

Source : Matt Taibbi (2014). “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”, p.13, Spiegel & Grau
“I don't think unhappiness is fated.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.1239, Broadway Books
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
“Everybody's excited about the new service economy, even though there is no actual service as near as I can tell.”
“My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.”
“I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.”
“You canâ€™t teach a monkey to speak and you canâ€™t teach an Arab to be democratic,”
“Ignorance never settles a question.”

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