Quotes About Agreement

All colours will agree in the dark

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.

Because unity in faith is a gift, dialogue can never be a search for compromise, never have as a goal a negotiated agreement like a business contract.

In other words, when our thought-life is in agreement with unbelief, fear, or habitual sin, the enemy has rest.

But the stability of democratic politics in the period from the end of World War II up to the present revolved around dominant center-left and center-right parties that largely agreed on the legitimacy of a democratic welfare state.

For Hegel , by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign.

Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet.

The author says those who often claim to be tolerant are tolerant of those who agree with them – which is no one's definition of tolerance.

The true work of the critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.

Caron for a few minutes agreed to be in his communications room at the time Caron suggested to take a person-to-person call from Lebel on a matter of great urgency. Van Ruys of South Africa was out

If we can all agree that none of us really knows what God actually is, maybe we can stop fighting about what we imagine God to be.

He nodded." "He kind-of-halfway-sort-of-nodded-but-it-might-have-been-a-random-twitch.

I spent years in a graduate literature program learning what makes great writing, and the only conclusion we came to was that the future of graduate literature programs was safe because nobody is ever going to agree on what makes great writing.

People are discord," Syl said. "What does that mean?" "You all act differently and think differently. Nothing else is like that—animals act alike (...) There's harmony in that. But not in you—it seems that no two of you can agree on anything. All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

No estás de acuerdo con mi misión. Lo comprendo en la medida que es posible comprender a alguien con quien estoy completamente en desacuerdo.

If I toss something upward, it comes back down." "Except when it doesn't." "It's a law." "No," Syl said, looking upward. "It's more like . . . more like an agreement among friends.

Promised?" Kaladin asked. "I don't remember a promise." "You grunted." "I… grunted?