Quotes About Negotiation

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

"Let us agree not to step on each other's feet," said the cock to the horse.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Diplomacy; the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Soft words are hard arguments.

There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

At least I'm not asking you to go to six o'clock Mass with me in the morning." "Darling Eve, to get me to do that the amount and variety of the sexual favors required are so many and myriad even my imagination boggles." "I don't think you can exchange sexual favors for Mass attendance. But if I decide to go check it out, and I get the chance, I'll ask the priest.

If we do, I want to be the bad cop." "You're a lousy bad cop, Feeney. Face it." He gave her a mournful look. "I outrank you, Dallas." "I'm primary, and I'm better at bad cop. Live with it." "I always have to be the good cop," he muttered as they stepped into a well-lighted hallway with more marble, more gilt.

Love doesn't hang on conditions, but marriage bloody well hangs on compromise.

Divorced him—hired a fucking shark lawyer—excuse the language." "No problem. Cops hear words like lawyer all the time." Fanny

bribes often worked where procedure or threats wouldn't.

I don't care for the fact that you have a point. ~ Roarke

Tell you what, you let me go, and I'll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I'm slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me.

V settled back against the pillows and measured the hard line of her chin. Take off your coat. Excuse me? Take it off. No. I want it off. Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you.

The thread of will-they-or-won't-they was the real driver of every word and glance and shift of body. So...this was a date, Blay thought. A subtextual negotiation slipcovered in talk of books read and music enjoyed.

In his old life, the answer would have been easy: He'd have just put a gun to Vin's head and dragged the fucker to the altar. Now? He needed to be a little more civilized.

Before we kumbaya this shit, you're going to do something for me, right here and now." The

I have learned long ago, there is no negotiating with destiny.