Quotes About Agreement

AFFIDATION  (AFFIDA'TION)  AFFIDATURE  (AFFIDA'TURE)  n.s.[from  affido, Lat.See AFFIED.] Mutual contract; mutual oath of fidelity. Dict.

has been demanded, on one hand, that men should write as they speak; but, as it has been shown that this conformity never was attained in any language, and that it is not more easy to persuade men to agree exactly in speaking than in writing, it may be asked, with equal propriety, why men do not rather speak as they write. In

Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny.BibleMatt.xx. 13.5. To

Small countries have to come to terms with great ones. Hitler had the power; thus some of his demands had to be accepted.

That's brilliant. I thought so. But I'm glad you agree. It will make this journey much more pleasant if you are impressed with my brilliance.

We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody get's hurt. It's basic.' ~Oliva, pg 374

This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.

I bet you can't eat ten bananas! I bet you're right.

Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close.

A united front announcing a split.

Almost, I thought. Out loud I said, Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close. Auden

Behind the man's back Jonah and I give each other a high five.

There seems to be no end to the satisfaction one gets in having one's opinions confirmed.

All those adorable towheaded kids in the promotional film are going to turn thirteen. Once a family member hits puberty, odds are that everybody is not going to have the same ideals. Unless everybody gets together and agrees that the new ideals involve turning the front yard into a skate ramp and officially changing Dad's name to Fuckhead.

I soon figured out that I should keep my qualms to myself. Christianity is no different from any other cult---it isn't about faith. It's about agreement, about like-minded people sitting together in the same room at the same time believing the same thing. That unity is its appeal. Once someone, even a little six-year-old someone wearing patent leather Mary Janes, starts asking questions that can't be answered, the whole congregation's fun is spoiled.

We the people have never agreed on much of anything. ... [D]isunity is the through-line in the national plot. Not necessarily as a failing, but as a free people's privileged.

When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.

The lawyers—see?—draw up an agreement, and she says okay on Monday and wants more money on Tuesday. And it begins again.

At that time, when you thought, and I agreed, that I shouldn't be alone, perhaps I really should have been alone

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.

Honor's face turned bright red. Her knuckles went white. "Yes," Honor said. "I understand, Mister Gibbons." Gibbons nodded, making the common mistake of thinking that understanding and agreeing were the same thing.

Like it or not, people say no more than they say "yes.

he's the only one who didn't slide a piece of paper across the table with a number on it