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Quotes About Agreement

Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Do we ever say that we need them to agree to it anyway? I've never seen it. Given the stakes, who in their right mind would agree to be practiced upon?
~ Atul Gawande
But he agreed that it could not be ruled out.
~ Atul Gawande
After a momentary hesitation, he decided to join me.
~ Atul Gawande
When he signed his contract for the 1999 season, he insisted that his salary be $1,200,000.99.
~ Atul Gawande
The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.
~ Ayn Rand
The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act—the process of reason—must be performed by each man alone.
~ Ayn Rand
The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial.
~ Ayn Rand
What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word—'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance.
~ Ayn Rand
They say that it's hard for men to agree. You'd be surprised how easy it is—when both parties hold as their moral absolute that neither exists for the sake of the other and that reason is their only means of trade.
~ Ayn Rand
Charcot's drawings of convulsing hysterics agree in every detail with the scenes that left Deodat Lawson reeling.
~ Stacy Schiff
The Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo makes a similar point to Rorty: "We don't reach agreement when we have discovered the truth," he observes; "we say we have discovered the truth when we reach agreement.
~ Stephen Batchelor
Today, we are the world's only superpower, and around the world - even in Russia - there is nearly virtual agreement that if there is to be only one superpower then thank God Almighty that it is the United States.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose
Compromise is a stalling between two fools.
~ Stephen Fry
It appeared that each observer must have his own measure of time, as recorded by a clock carried with him, and that identical clocks carried by different observers would not necessarily agree.
~ Stephen Hawking
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
~ Stephen King
You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
~ Stephen King
You say true, I say thankya.
~ Stephen King
Give me what I want and I will go away
~ Stephen King
I know what you mean, jellybean.
~ Stephen King
If Possible, Make Peace. If Not, Put A Full Stop.
~ Monojit Dutta
In modern society the term "no" have changed meaning. It now seems to be an abbreviation for "Negotiations Open".
~ Jury Nel
Live in harmony with one another.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
~ Desmond Tutu