Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
I say a little prayer every time I see a race. I say a little prayer that the riders and the horses will be okay.
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Other Mother: They say even the proudest spirit can be broken... with love.
Dracula: [to Jonathan Harker] They say you are a man of good... taste.
Anderson: Down here they say rattlesnakes don't commit suicide.
Ruth: So this is the ship they say is unsinkable. Cal Hockley: It is unsinkable. God himself could not sink this ship.
The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.
The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man.
