Quotes About Agreement

But in the way of bargain, mark you me,I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.

Is it so nominated in the bond?

'Tis not in the bond.

Let him look to his bond.

And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. —Daniele Vare, Italian diplomat We

Janette left, after promising the sheriff she would not try to locate Pat's house until morning.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

We all have to see that the practice of the church life is not by bringing everyone into agreement with one another through discussions, talks, and negotiations with certain terms or conditions. Rather, the way to practice the church life is to put everyone and everything on the cross and to have everyone take Christ as life. Then we will be permeated and saturated by Christ and with Christ. Then we will be wholly, thoroughly, and absolutely a member of Christ from within to without.

We will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire to get together, we will get together.

We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves.... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

Smudges of darkness were beginning to collect around the roots of the trees, but they were still faint, as if the night had agreed to hold off for a bit longer.

No one gets the best spot all the time—they have to compromise.

My thinking is that the conclusion of the collapse of these two ideologies, is that it is not for peace we should aspire, but for a solid agreement which would help us separate as efficiently as possible.

Of course, I'm aware of the animosities destroying brain cells on both sides, and I know all about the obstinacy of the warring parties, their refusal to reach an agreement, their devotion to their own murderous hatred….

Roosevelt knew better than to suggest that Chamberlain criticize or call into question "the present German policy of racial persecution." All he asked was that he try to negotiate an agreement that would permit Jewish refugees who wanted to leave Germany "to take with them a reasonable percentage of their property. 

We all make our deals with life. We do it invisibly, sometimes unconsciously, and alone, without benefit of collective bargaining, We come to terms.

People at the Neutral level are easy to get along with and safe to associate with because they are not interested in conflict, competition, or guilt.

every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

For all that has been: Thanks. For all that shall be: Yes.

In Mary's view, Trumbull should have given Lincoln his votes, not the other way around. Lincoln was relieved that at least the senatorship had gone to the like-minded Trumbull, whom he congratulated and continued to befriend.

be strict in what you will accept before you begin, and promise as little as possible in return.

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