"I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers."

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Source : S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.316, Penguin

S.M. Stirling

#Stranger Quotes #Diplomacy Quotes #Diplomatic Quotes

“Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.”
“If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in judging it. The pleasure of the subjective, physical experience in the world is a more distant memory and less influential.”
“As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.”

Source : "Childhood Obesity: Fighting for the Future Health of America's Youth" by Richard Carmona, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2010.
“The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea”

Source : Bernard Moitessier (1995). “The Long Way”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield
“I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.”
“What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?”
“Kyle Busch is going to get his ***** whipped shortly I hope. He better sit his ***** in his motor home or Iâ€™m going to come find him and heâ€™s going to have to hold my watch because Iâ€™m going to whip his ass. Heâ€™s the biggest whining little piece of [expletive] Iâ€™ve ever seen in my whole life.”
“Bulls make money and bears make money, but pigs seldom do. When a stock or mutual fund is up 30%, sell one-quarter of your position.”

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