Quotes About Negotiation

Words are not swords.

Wars are won with quills and ravens, wasn't that what you said?

Just once you might try to give me an answer that would please me, Lord Snow.

Save yourself some pain, girl, and give him what he wants.

Hay peleas que no se pueden ganar con la espada»

You haggle like a crone with a codfish.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

We are working hard to convince both the Indians and the Pakis there's a way to deal with their problems without going to war.

It is easier to make war than peace.

Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!

When two sides to an issue become adversaries, cooperation is lost. The result is gridlock. Time and effort and energy are consumed that are desperately needed elsewhere.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll never need. I do it to do it. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it, I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.

It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.

Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of "deals," or compromises, between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.