Quotes About Mediation

Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts of food to bring about difficult reconciliations.

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

Así te vienes como neutral 38 con intención de dirimir nuestras controversias, de detener a ambos bandos, y de hacernos creer que nos estamos peleando por estupideces y cosas inútiles.

No good can be expected from a righteous and holy God to sinful creatures, but by his mediation.

There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!

Metaphysical judgments are inherent in what counts as empirical evidence, and these judgments mediate between science and theology proper.

You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite, so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation between these opposites is the game of life.

I would mediate engagements for the women who wanted to get married and help the others find new positions or start their own businesses.

Once you know yourself, then you do not need a mediator between you and God.

My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

Separate the people from the problem. Focus on interests rather than positions. Generate a variety of options before settling on an agreement; and Insist that the agreement be based on objective criteria.

the concept of scaffolding to investigate teacher questions as 'mediational tools within the dialogue between the teacher and students' (p. 184). As we saw in Chapter 1 and Chapter 4, scaffolding refers to a process in which, for example, a more knowledgeable (or expert) speaker helps a less knowledgeable (or novice) learner by providing an interactional framework that the learner can build on.

Swain (2000) considers collaborative dialogues such as these as the context where 'language use and language learning can co-occur. It is language use mediating language learning. It is cognitive activity and it is social activity' (p. 97).

My job, as Bernard Lonergan, S.J. taught us back at the Gregorian University in Rome during the early 1960s, is "to mediate between religion and culture." That means to make sense of the world in the light of Christian belief and experience and to make sense of Christian belief in the light of our experience and knowledge of the world we live in.