Quotes About Agreement

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

My deal with WCW was if I'd choose to show up, I was guaranteed a certain amount, but I'm not required to come to work for WCW.

It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.

Under Conservative, Labour, and coalition governments, the U.K. was never willing to accept all the moves to union or all the requirements of the E.U.

A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.

The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.

I will attack ideas very hard. I am not shy about that one bit. So I don't want people to think that because I had a call for civility that that means I shy away from debate and that I'm agreeable. That's not the case. What is the case is that I will not question who you are as a person.

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.

I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk.

Contract things are kind of tough to come up with, especially with both sides and kind of how the economics and all those things work.

It takes two sides to put things together.

A sign that negotiations were handled well on both sides is that everybody probably feels a little bit like they didn't get what they wanted.

I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

People have to know that when you sign a deal with Canada, a change in governments won't immediately scrap the jobs and benefits coming from it.

First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract.

I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film.

Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness - you're fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.