Quotes About Agreement

choose to live by cooperating.

conflict doesn't have to mean combat.

Obama was left with but a single task: Negotiate a new status-of-forces agreement (SOFA) to reinforce these gains and create a strategic partnership with the Arab world's only democracy. He blew it.

We are not saying that a reader should not ultimately disagree and try to show where the author is wrong. We are saying only that he should be as prepared to agree as to disagree. Whichever he does should be motivated by one consideration alone—the facts, the truth about the case.

Democratic government is no longer an exercise of arbitrary authority from one above, but is an organization for public service of the people themselves--or will be when it is really attained. In this change government ceases to be compulsion, and becomes agreement; law ceases to be authority and becomes co-ordination. When we learn the rules of whist or chess we do not obey them because we fear to be punished if we don't, but because we want to play the game.

there are some things one takes for granted, supposes are mutually understood, and to which both parties may repeatedly refer without ever meaning the same thing.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.

There's no need to threaten or bellow. I intend to discuss this quietly and rationally, or I won't discuss it at all. I'm asking you how to handle the dissolution with a minimum of fuss

In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

People argued less on a full stomach.

Spurring reform in a nation also requires homogeneity in thought. People should generally agree on what a country's top problems are and the solutions needed for them.

...there hardly ever existed such a thing as a bad Peace — or a good War...

The most pleasant words in the English language are: "You are right."

On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.

The absence of consensus does not mean an absence of truth

Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled

I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.

Kenneth Copeland: «Dios no tenía medio de fe duradera o de movimiento en la tierra. Tenía que tener un pacto con alguien… Él tenía que ser invitado, en otras palabras, o no podría venir… Dios está mirando desde el exterior. A fin de tener palabra en la tierra, Él tiene que estar en acuerdo con un hombre aquí» (God's Covenants with Man II [Kenneth Copeland Ministries, 1985], cinta de audio #01-4404, cara 1).

Work like hell, tell everyone everything you know, close a deal with a handshake, and have fun.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

3. Don't attempt to perpetuate a relationship by contract. Change is inevitable.

The absence of war is not peace.