Quotes About Agreement

At breakfast, Hank and I discussed developments in Europe and agreed to keep in close touch.

he was voting yes "with some reluctance.

The Committee approved the package unanimously.

I urge you, in your public communication, to consider highlighting areas of common ground in addition to differences.

Still, in the interest of good planning, I thought it made sense for the FOMC to discuss and agree on the mechanics of normalizing policy. And

each lender was typically reluctant to offer a modification without concessions from the other. Servicers

Greenspan had come to the same conclusion.

It's not that everybody hates you. It's that millions of Americans are afraid to say that they agree with you.

Spend time, talk it out before you get married. And figure it out. Make sure your really big issues you agree on. How you're going to raise your kids. If you're going to have kids. Your religion. All this kind of stuff. What do you think about money? Your morality? All these things. The big shit. Make sure you talk this stuff out, because this is the stuff that counts, not whether or not he picks up his clothes.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Never has there been a good war or a bad peace

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

On the whole, sir, I can not help expressing a wish that every member of the convention who may still have objections to it, would, with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.

He agreed with the captain of a New York sloop for my passage, under the notion of my being a young acquaintance of his that had got a naughty girl with child, whose friends would compel me to marry her, and therefore I could not appear or come away publicly.

Osborne went to the West Indies, where he became an eminent lawyer and made money, but died young. He and I had made a serious agreement, that the one who happened first to die should, if possible, make a friendly visit to the other, and acquaint him how he found things in that separate state. But he never fulfilled his promise.

He that pays for work before it's done has but a pennyworth for two pence.

The stock investor is neither right or wrong because others agreed or disagreed with him; he is right because his facts and analysis are right.

We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way—an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

This is a bad deal — a very bad deal. We're better off without it.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement.