Quotes About Agreement

The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement

We have certain differences over the ways to pursue our goals, but our final aims coincide, in my opinion.

We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.

You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!'

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree

That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.

Love is two minds without a single thought.

True love is when your heart and your minds are saying the same thing.

The art of diplomacy starts with the heart of diplomacy which is to find a peaceable solution.

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

However, the most powerful way to communicate that we are making a genuine request is to empathize with people when they don't agree to the request.

No hugging," I warned her. It was in our contract.

In the deployment center, when I was standing there while Dr. Mensah explained why she didn't want to rent me as part of the bond guarantee agreement, she had called the increase in intelligence a "hellish compromise.

It's hard to make a proper argument when you're both on the same side.

No hugging," I warned her. It was in our contract. "Do you need emotional support? Do you want me to call someone?

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.' 

a process by which we co-ordinate our ideas, define the meaning of the words we use, grasp the difference between essential and unessential factors, and fix and expose the fundamental data on which everyone is agreed. In this way we prepare the apparatus of practical discussion…. Without such an apparatus no two men can even think on the same line; much less can they ever hope to detach the real point of difference that divides them and isolate it for quiet solution.

It is possible that our negotiators, who have earnestly tried to negotiate a realistic and effective test ban, have exhausted every avenue of agreement, but since I have neither taken part in the negotiations nor had personal reports from the negotiators, who are not representatives chosen by me, I lack personal assurance of the futility of further discussions which alone would persuade me to urge the abandonment of so high an objective.

An act of senseless Discord produces a Temple of Concord'.

The New England Jornal of Medicine reports that nine out of ten doctors agree that one out of ten doctors is an idiot.