Famous quotes containing the words eden, foreign, secretary and/or resignation:
“We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.”
—Anthony, Sir Eden (1897–1977)
“In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.”
—James Reston (b. 1909)
“... the wife of an executive would be a better wife had she been a secretary first. As a secretary, you learn to adjust to the boss’s moods. Many marriages would be happier if the wife would do that.”
—Anne Bogan, U.S. executive secretary. As quoted in Working, book 1, by Studs Terkel (1973)
“How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he’s chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)