"Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way."

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Source : The Reflex, Oct. 1927

Isaac Goldberg

#Way Quotes #Diplomacy Quotes

“Anger is easier than forgiveness.”

Source : Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.262, Simon and Schuster
“An oak is no respecter of persons.”
“I would... learn how to drive... have a nice car... and drive it.”
“My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.”
“Iâ€™m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, Iâ€™ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I do it when Iâ€™ve not got anything better to do â€“ and even then I often do nothing instead.”
“What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to be one of the top 10 best-selling plays year after year) is the breadth of characters and personalities on display: in age, race, gender, social status, a true cross section of society when the play was written and also true today in terms of the reality of the humanity on display.”

Source : Source: blog.roundabouttheatre.org
“In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.”
“People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds,”

Source : "Robert Downey Jr. On Dating Sarah Jessica Parker, Parenting And Drug Use", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2008.

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