Dean Acheson Quotes

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

Dean Acheson

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• Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.

  

  Otto Loewi
  • Process
  • Rise
  • Progressive

• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • May
  • Said
  • Living

• Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Bad
  • You
  • Name

• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Courage

• I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• To me, the Quran is a research book.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Book
  • Me
  • Research

• I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

  

  G-Eazy
  • School
  • Money
  • Education

• That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • World
  • Different
  • Day

• My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Hair
  • Dead
  • Movement

• Circumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

  

  Ashley Montagu
  • Society

• Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Good
  • Joy

• Your first friends are your truest friends, I find. And the ones that stick are really special.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Friends

• It's exhausting being a woman.

  

  Colbie Caillat

• As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.

  

  Jenny Downham
  • People
  • Community

• A founder plays a magical role at the company: they invented or, as in my case, co-invented it. If and when a founder walks out the door, there is something spiritual that walks out the door, too.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Spiritual
  • Door

• While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

  

  Jerrold Nadler
  • Truth
  • Simple

• We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Men
  • History

• I totally don't believe that things have to be expensive for beauty. In fact, I'm always a little bit wary if they are... because I'm like, 'What kind of chemicals are in there? What's going to happen in ten years, when we find out what the side effects are?'

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Believe

• Reporters now are better educated than the crowd I knew when I broke in. We still had guys shaped by Prohibition and the Depression, so the news business still had badly paid people who loved it for the life, because every day was different.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• The only person to blame is the person making up the bullshit.

  

  Oliver Sykes Bring Me the Horizon
  • Blame
  • Bullshit

• We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars and stripes doesn't mean we want to see anybody in slavery or anything like that. It's just our heritage. To us, the bars and stripes means grits, 'y'all,' and the beauty of the South. There's no prejudice at all in that with us.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Europe
  • Bars
  • Stripes

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

  

  Dean Acheson