Relations Quotes

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

I don't like hypocrisy-even in international relations.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.

Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics.

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

Trade is the oldest and most important economic nexus among nations. Indeed, trade along with war ha been central to the evolution of international relations.

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.

I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.

In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

I think it is a very natural tendency for the nations to increase their influence in the international space, as they pursue their international relations with different countries.

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

#1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]

Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging.

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.