Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Tolstoy

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

M. John Harrison

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

Gail Carriger

Felicity grimaced in agreement. “No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one’s butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy.

John L. Lewis

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

George Mason

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

Joe Biden

I agree with Donna Brazile who said about Benghazi: "We got to preven dis from hapinin agen. "

Thomas Jefferson

What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

Richard Holbrooke

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Vicente Fox

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.

Vernor Vinge

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

Richard Tyler

Agreement is the by-product of listening and understanding.

Thomas Sowell

Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.

S. I. Hayakawa

Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.

Rumi

The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.

Great negotiators never lose sight of what they are aiming at, which is not an agreement per se, but a desired outcome....Getting to yes is easy, all you have to do is roll over. It's getting what you want that's hard.

Rudyard Kipling

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.

Rudy Giuliani

You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent. You don't even agree with me 100 percent.

Rudy Giuliani

We don't all agree on everything. I don't agree with myself on everything.

Steve Albini

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

Stephen Covey

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements

Thomas Carlyle

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

Stephen Harper

Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.

Pierre Corneille

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

Pope Francis

I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

Katy Perry

I'm not defined by where I came from.

Rafik Hariri

You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.

Stephen Young

Questions are far more effective than defensive statements. They do not imply agreement, but they do convey interest and a desire to understand and facilitate an environment for peak performance, a central thread of effective leadership.... The next time someone accuses you of virtually anything, ask some questions. Resolving the situation may take more time, but the outcome will likely be more productive for both of you.

Thom Mayne

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

Rick Riordan

I have some extra costumes-" "No!" Ephialtes snapped, and for once Percy was in agreement.

Maggie Stiefvater

No. Not really. A weapon didn't come to an agreement with the hand that held it.

Otto von Bismarck

Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play.

Yasser Arafat

I am convinced that our people are now on the way to establishing a Palestinian state. The agreement signed in Cairo is the first step in establishing the state, and therefore it should be implemented.