Agreement Quotes
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 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.
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.
I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.
It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
A covenant is an agreement between God and man, an accord whose terms are set by God.
The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.
In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.
Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.
The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
The people of America are in agreement in defending their liberties at any cost, and the first line of that defense lies in the protection of economic security.
We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.
At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.
Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.
Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.
This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the Netherlands.
What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.
My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.
I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.
Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.
However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.
Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.
There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.
I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said.
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
The only way we know we love ourselves and the people in our life is by the agreements we are willing to make and keep
The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent.
Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.
I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a very major role in producing the Great Depression.
If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.
Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.
One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.
You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.
Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.
Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.
By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.
