Quotes About Agreement

You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it?

He remarked as much to Charlotte on his return, and she was inclined to agree with him. 'As life draws us along,' she replied, 'we think we are acting of our own volition, ourselves choosing what we shall do and what we shall enjoy; but when we look more closely we see they are only the intentions and inclinations of the age which we are being compelled to comply with.

All systems go. Everything is A-OK.

You are afraid of the one–I, of the few. We agree perfectly that the many should have a full fair and perfect Representation.–You are Apprehensive of Monarchy; I, of Aristocracy. I would therefore have given more Power to the President and less to the Senate.

voluntary compliance," to strive for agreeable, or at least not disagreeable, relations with the taxpaying public, and so on. He is a less gregarious and a more reflective man than Caplin, however, and this difference has had

peas in a pod.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative

The will of God is the rule of righteousness; whatever does not agree with his will is unrighteous; and if unrighteous, it is at the same time deadly. When

I am rather inclined, however, to agree with ancient writers, that in those passages[1]wherein it is stated that the angel of the Lord appeared to Abraham, Jacob, and Moses, Christ was that angel.

But we ever find, that even those who have not been deficient in their zeal for piety, nor in reverence and sobriety in handling the mysteries of God, have by no means agreed among themselves on every point; for God hath never favored his servants with so great a benefit, that they were all endued with a full and perfect knowledge in every thing; and, no doubt, for this end — that he might first keep them humble; and secondly, render them disposed to cultivate brotherly intercourse.

There is a price to be paid for everything, and it is a good idea to find out that price before you make the agreement.

reading was a solitary pursuit. Oh, one could read in the same room as someone else, or beside them in bed at night, but it rather presumed that an agreement had been reached about such matters, and the couple in question consisted of a pair of like-minded souls.

Yet it is the dissenters seeking a peaceful settlement

Now you address me," the kingfisher said. " 'O Bird!' you say, and make your request." "O Bird!" August said, opening his hands imploringly, "Tell me this: Is it okay if we have a gas station in Meadowbrook, and sell Ford cars?" "Certainly." "What?" "Certainly!

Amen"—so be it, there is nothing more to be said.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.

Spiritual life is contractual.

The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.

If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

Most of us can agree there is nothing more special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and important than life!

Food is a part of our contract with life.

The public is not an amorphous mass which can be molded at will, or dictated to. Both business and the public have their own personalities which must somehow be brought into friendly agreement.