Quotes About Negotiation

How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships.

Between opponents who will not physically fight, a punch line is equivalent to a punch.

I was successful and acceptable and loved because I was—and still am—great at negotiating with whiteness. But that means my white friends often mistakenly believe that my ability to successfully negotiate the white world means that I am white—or more white than Native. My white friends can mistakenly believe that my intellectual and artistic abilities are intrinsically white.

I declared a truce with her, at least within myself. Or maybe it's only a partial truce because a half-truce is really just a surrender, right?

I don't like your hair black. (Artemis) And I don't like your head attached to your shoulders. Guess we can't all have what we want, huh? (Acheron)

When you dance with the devil, you don't get to pick the tune.

So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn't end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)

Well, then, if I admit I know who you are and really couldn't care less will that assuage your damaged manhood enough that we can get past this and move on to something that ends with your giving me a sandwich? (Leta)

Let's find someplace where there aren't any dead people, insects, or rodents. For that matter, someplace that's big enough to accommodate both of us without crimping any internal organs. (Shahara) Picky, picky, picky. (Syn)

Don't you have something to do? (Sin) If not for the fact it would result in your breaking every bone in my body and making me cry for Mommy, I'd be calling some cops. As it stands, I think my neck is best served by trying to talk sense into you. (Kish)

Perhaps I should sit up front with the driver and give you two enough space to beat the crap out of each other and settle this like grown adolescents. (Geary)

What are you doing here? (Terri) I'll tell you if you tell me why you're here. (Nathan) No. Leave. (Terri) No. You leave. (Nathan) What are we? Four? (Terri)

Stoner lowered the gun to Carlos's crotch.) Should we continue splitting hairs? (Stoner)

Hunter would rather deal with an insane terrorist than an upset female.' (Hunter)

Varyk's deadly gaze turned brittle. 'You really don't want to take that tone with me.' Dev crossed his arms over his chest. 'Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated. How about I just settle on extreme sarcasm and we call it even?

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

The big hang-up was George Bush wanted to get life lines, you know, so he could call somebody.

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

Like dealing with Dad-all give and no take. (On negotiating with Soviet Premier Nikita S Khrushchev)

Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple business of planning a war.

Now," said Halt, "all I have to do is work out a way of beating these horse-riding devils." Erak grinned at him. "That should be child's play," he said. "The hard part will be convincing Ragnak about it.

We drew lots for the sleeping spaces," he pointed out, striving to keep a reasonable tone. Ulf shrugged petulantly. "Well, if I'd known I was going to be so close to the door, I would have drawn a different one." Hal gave up trying to be reasonable. He glared at Ulf. "Do you realize how abysmally stupid that statement is?" he demanded.