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"No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none." »Henry Kissinger
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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." »James Reston, New York Times, June 12 1968
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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." »James Reston
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"I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers." »D. H. Lawrence
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"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures..." »Geronimo
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"...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and (there is) no cause to value one above the other."" »H.P. Lovecraft
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"The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God." »Voltaire
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"O why was I born with a different face?
Why was I not born like rest of my race?" »William Blake 1803
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"A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own." »Johann von Goethe
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"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." »Christopher Morley
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"Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it." »Christopher Morley
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"If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born; it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences." »Eugene Edwards
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"[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." »L. P. Hartley
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"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue." »Virginia Woolf
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"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." »L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between
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"The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it." »Helen Hayes
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"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." »George Washington
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"Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism." »Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915
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"In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God." »James Agee
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"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer." »Peter Ustinov
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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." »Anais Nin
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"Today is Christmas Eve. Whether or not Christ was born exactly on this date is not important. But chronological accuracy has nothing to do with tonight's event. A grand genius had been born who preached truth and love; who suffered because of his mission; and on account of his sufferings the world has become better, if not saved. Only it gives me nausea to see how some people abuse his name to commit numerous crimes. If he is in heaven, he will certainly protest! (24 December 1886)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." »Anais Nin
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"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led." »Warren Bennis
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