Quotes About Agreement

getting six woman to agree on something is like getting Dr. Laura to agree with Howard Stern.

No one judging her by her appearance would dream that Miss Daphne Wade had a rather salacious habit of staring at her employer's naked chest whenever she had the chance, although most women would have agreed that Anthony Courtland, Duke of Tremore, had a chest worth looking at.

Ask questions. Keep an open mind. Listen to the other person. Focus on finding common ground, areas of agreement. Anger is one letter away from danger

You're ballsy, Nats. Jeez." "Pfft. Why do men say that? Balls? If you kick them or bump them or they get cold or too warm, you guys go down for the count. I say I have vagina. Way tougher than balls. Though it does hurt to get kicked there." He sputtered and then laughed and laughed. "We need to think of another term, though. Vagina up? No. I'll think about it and get back to you. So did he agree, then? To sell you the guitar, I mean?

That's what a relationship was. An agreement to navigate all that twisty bullshit that could sink everything.

From Fonseca's point of view, this was hardly an advantageous contract, for it gave Magellan too much

In time, the treaty had the opposite of its intended effect.

even if he believed he was entitled to do so under his own contract with King Charles.

and offered to lobby on behalf of the expedition in exchange for 20 percent of the profits.

the first clause, King Charles appeared to accede to Magellan's insistence on a ten-year exclusive:

As Magellan expected, Molino accepted the deal, as cruel as it was.

They replied that their only advice was that they were willing to do as he commanded. Magellan .

The concept of transcending duality, that is, of going beyond the notions of pleasing and distasteful, should be applied to the realm of rhetoric. When you are listening to someone expound on his or her ideas (or if you are reading them as a letter, e-mail or news story) endeavor to stop yourself from forming any opinion of the speaker's views. The goal is neither to agree nor to disagree.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

nous devons faire semblant de parler la même langue d'être emplis des mêmes mots

They would make a pact: to let the past drift away, to stop asking questions, to look forward from them on, never back.

When they had married, he and Marilyn had agreed to forget about the past. They would start a new life together, the two of them, with no looking back.

I recommend you just smile and nod

All that we can say is that the belief in God is universal—with those who believe in him. And even here universality of belief is only secured by their refraining from discussing precisely what it is they mean by "God," and what it is they believe in. There is agreement in obscurity, each one dreading to see clearly the features of his assumed friend for fear he should recognise the face of an enemy.

From that point on, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and a few other intimates made it their first priority to arrange a deal with Hamilton—letting him have his assumption plan, but hopefully in the form of a compromise that would force him to give up something in return. Chapter

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

It is by universal misunderstanding that we agree with each other. If, by some misfortune, we understood each other, we would never agree.

When the bets were in Dusty would nod his head and I'd knock the guy out. I don't know if you've ever knocked anybody out, but the best place to hit them is where the jaw meets the ear. If you catch them right they fall forward. They were always grabbing at my shirt on the way down and ripping it, so I had a deal with Nixon that I got a new white shirt every night as part of my pay.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.