Agreement Quotes

A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

When John Kerry and Zell Miller and George Bush can agree on an issue, you know its got legs.

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

Ukraine will be reforming its energy sector because we want to integrate into Europe, ... We have conducted all the talks and reached an agreement with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Poland and Georgia.

At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.

The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.

When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

Agreements are always the product of time and place.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Even savage animals can agree among themselves.

Sometimes I have a beard, sometimes I don't, and I'm not very good at maintaining it. I've got an agreement with my life coach and guru that I don't touch it from now on.

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.

Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.

Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.

I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.

Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.

Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

People living their lives for you on TV; They say they're better than you, and you agree.

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.