Quotes About Agreement

If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.

A swarm finds the solution people best agree upon. It optimizes collective support, whereas a poll tells us how we disagree.

You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Whether people agree or disagree with the decisions an actor makes after their Disney tenure, every alum has a clear vision of how they want their career to pan out.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating.

I have, at times, not been totally on the same page as some of my previous partners in crime.

I believe you should have a world where you've got to license something at a fair price.

Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.

The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full agreement between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

A preliminary agreement in principle is not a deal.

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.

Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.

It's difficult to see how the U.K. can be a member of the E.U. if it's not adherent to the principles set out in the convention.

I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.

You shouldn't marry unless the both of you are on the same page on a lot of things. Life is going to deal you blows, and you have to be together. Your values and priorities have to be on the same page; otherwise, it won't work.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

When differences of view emerge, as they are bound to do from time to time, they should be resolved privately and whenever appropriately, collectively.

Our idea is to make the U.K. a privileged partner of the E.U.

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.