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Quotes About Agreement

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
~ Dean Koontz
They say not everyone can be MGR. I agree. MGR is a revolutionary. Not in a 1,000 years can there be another MGR. If anyone says he will be the next MGR, he is insane. But I have the confidence that I can give the government that MGR gave to the people of Tamil Nadu.
~ Rajinikanth
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'
~ Doc Watson
I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
~ Sally Kirkland
In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.
~ Irving Paul Lazar
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
~ James Fenton
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
~ George Washington
Despite heated political debates on the future of our health care system, there is bipartisan agreement that health IT can be a powerful tool to transform and modernize the delivery of health care in our country. Health IT is about helping patients and their loved ones.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
We understand U.S. position, but we have to find a way to make trade translate into better jobs in North America.
~ Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal
Most people would agree that the E.U. is too bureaucratic, not transparent or democratic enough and that it often interferes too much in matters that are best left to national governments.
~ Nicola Sturgeon
May the inward and outward man be as one.
~ Socrates
Do we have not choice but to agree that in each of us are found the same elements and characteristics as are found in the city? After all, where else could the city have got them from?
~ Socrates
Not that you are unloved but that you love and must decide which to remember; tracks left in the field, a language of going away or coming back— and to look up from the single mind, to let untangle the far-off snow from sky until no longer held as proof is also where birds find agreement strung along branches each with their own song for the other, every note used to sing anyway— how to hold the already as the not yet
~ Sophie Cabot Black
Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.
~ Spanish proverb
Christ Himself has said: They are no longer two, but they are one flesh (Matt. 19:6). Is it strange then, if they are one flesh, that they should have one tongue and should say the same words, since they are one flesh, Head and body? Let us therefore hear them as one. But let us listen to the Head speaking as Head, and to the body speaking as the body. We do not separate the two realities, but two different dignities; for the Head saves, and the body is saved.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
It often happens, with regard to new inventions, that one part of the general public finds them useless and another part considers them to be impossible. When it becomes clear that the possibility and the usefulness can no longer be denied, most agree that the thing was fairly easy to discover and that they knew it was significant. —Abraham Edelcrantz, Treatise on Telegraphs (1796)
~ Stanley B. Prusiner
Anyhow, his basic philosophy was encapsulated in his famous statement, "I have an agreement with my people. They can say what they want. I can do what I want.
~ Stanley Bing
Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree.
~ Sten Nadolny
It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
~ Alan Cohen
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.
~ Adrian Rogers
Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?'
~ Barry Long
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
~ Voltaire
Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.
~ Peter Atkins