Quotes About Agreement

It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers from crushing the group at the other end of the political spectrum.

if someone's worked and been paid for twenty-two years, wasn't that the agreement? Don't get me wrong—loyalty is a good thing—but I have a hard time understanding why we feel we deserve something more

The more intimate we are with someone, the more difficult it is objectively to hear their point of view without reacting to their negative feelings. To protect ourselves from feeling worthy of their disrespect or disapproval automatic defenses come up to resist their point of view. Even if we agree with their point of view, we may stubbornly persist in arguing with them.

to the McDover case. She agreed but doubted seriously if she would comply, even though her appetite for risk had been severely diminished. As agreed, Wilton met her near the front entrance and they found a quiet table in a coffee bar at the

Why don't you suggest a figure?" he said. "I mentioned five, now it's your turn.

When you leave, Mr. Gant, our offer of $7 million comes off the table. You go home with zero.

The deal was off. Donovan had filed

Pete had insisted on a stipulation that Liza be allowed to live in the home for the rest of her life, provided she did not remarry, and provided that she was one day

Solving a dispute often requires each side to back down a little, something else Theo had learned from his parents.

Harkin asked for a no-strike guarantee in the future, but Easter wouldn't commit.

without getting near bluegrass, CNN, opera, or a hundred other stations. Out of frustration on her part and fatigue on his, they both threw in the towel early and settled on soft jazz.

They agreed to go their separate ways on Sundays and had no idea what would happen when children entered the picture.

On January 3, 1567, Mary wrote to say that she accepted the offer

because the regent's power was limited by the terms of the treaty of Haddington.

Despite the humiliating terms of the treaty, Francis and Mary had to promise to ratify and fulfill all of its conditions

Mary and Francis had not even been consulted about its terms

The lords said afterward that she had agreed to a divorce in principle, as long as it was legal and "not prejudicial to her son.

as a rule the highlanders and lowlanders had a tacit agreement to ignore one another.

To achieve a quick result, he found himself accepting terms that guaranteed Scotland's independence

He hadn't known many British, but some of them seemed crazy to him, and so it seemed a small thing to agree to—and Wally thought it was wise to agree with whoever it was who held the catheter.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people agree that I was right. None of them ever accused me of being responsible for what had happened to Phineas, either because they could not believe it or because they could not understand it. I would have talked about that, but they would not, and I would not talk about Phineas in any other way.

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Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.