Peace Negotiations

Famous quotes containing the words peace and/or negotiations:

“Better to be a dog in times of peace than a human being in times of trouble.”
—Chinese proverb.

“But always and sometimes questioning the old modes
And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor,
Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual
Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now,
Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)