Quotes About Agreement

If we cannot think alike, at least we may love alike; and can anything but love beget love?

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.

Dean Martin growled at me, as if in agreement. I was going to say something else but trying to work out which of his eyes was actually looking at me was weirdly distracting.

him about money. He suggested a weekly wage, I agreed, and once a year he told me he'd upped it a bit, usually by a little more than I would have asked for. What did people ask in interviews anyway? And what if they asked me to do something practical with this old man, to feed him or bath

the answer was no, whatever her query was, except for those bits to which his answer was yes

that opening position in every negotiation. The one that said, out of the goodness of my heart I'm going to agree to rob you blind.

The world won't be taken over by guns and swords. It'll be with smiles and signatures.

There's that expression, David always uses it: 'I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

naive realism": Each of us thinks we see the world directly, as it really is. We further believe that the facts as we see them are there for all to see, therefore others should agree with us. If they don't agree, it follows either that they have not yet been exposed to the relevant facts or else that they are blinded by their interests and ideologies.

Transactional politics is not always appropriate or effective, but a political system which is not reliably capable of it is a system in a state of critical failure. Deal-making

Those two rules define a decision-making system which people can agree to use to figure out whose opinions are worth believing. Under this system, you can do anything you wish to test a statement, as long as you follow the rules, which effectively say: • The system may not fix the outcome in advance or for good (no final say). • The system may not distinguish between participants (no personal authority).

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

Penelope Fittes—" "Has got nothing whatsoever to do with it, as you well know. It was Lockwood who came knocking on your door, and that's why you considered the proposal, and let's face it, that's why you said yes.

There's nothing like imminent disaster for putting an end to bickering

That's as well said, as if I had said it myself.

That was excellently observed', say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

And nothing can be resolved until each of you has come to appreciate the other's position

This predilection of bright women to twist themselves into bizarre submissive postures from which only humor can release them is something die-hard feminists will never address. But Iris and I were in agreement: there is nothing that warms a smart girl's heart like the smile on the face of a sadist.

Su palabra equivale a un contrato

Il mio regno non è di questo mondo» significa che l'armonia non è di questo mondo; l'affetto troppo armonioso, l'accordo troppo stabile, la dolcezza troppo sistematica, l'ottimismo troppo conciliante sono parzialmente frutto della menzogna.

Spread the table and contention will cease.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men