Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanley Elkin

What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.

Shinzo Abe

I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.

Lech Walesa

We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which we will build the world of tomorrow.

NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.

Tom DeLay

We don't have an agreed agenda. Breaking up our leadership has taken its toll.

We are having ongoing conversations right now, going back and forth discussing what might be agreeable for both parties. There is a lot of interest there, and we are just going about trying to find out how we can get Chauncey to represent our country.

We are gratified to receive the support from all the mayors, as well as from Senator Boxer and Representative Pelosi. It points up the fact that caregivers want a compromise agreement that benefits our patients. We don't understand what's wrong with Sutter Health that it would force a strike instead.

We are gratified to have a tentative agreement that benefits everyone associated with Delta Air Lines. This agreement will make Delta pilots the best paid in the industry and will provide other significant improvements.

William Taylor

We are grateful that Judge Finch agreed that Wal-Mart is bound by the terms of its retirement agreement with Tom Coughlin,

Lee Myung-bak

First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.

Allen Ginsberg

Sanity - a trick of agreement

Ann Coulter

It is an article of faith with the Democrats that they must fool Americans by simulating agreement with normal people. The winner of the Democratic primary is always the candidate who does the best impersonation of an American.

The deal was done on a handshake. They've been friends for over 30 years and they both agreed on everything.

Allan Ramsay

The deal was agreed 13 months ago, and huge arrangements have been made to put it in place.

The deal today is better and more fair for both sides than it was in February. This agreement is very, very different than what's ever been a part of this sport. It's revenue-driven. Everyone here is talking about how do we grow the product? History will be able to look back and say there was an inflection point and a launching pad for all aspects for the game.

The deal is virtually done and it's not going to be just revolutionary for the NHL, it will be a new chapter in collective bargaining agreements for all sports because it will most closely tie together the fortunes of the owners and the players.

The deal has all but been done. We have a verbal agreement from James and it's just a case of getting the paperwork processed next week.

Keith Urban

The dealer took $2 000 (R12 000) off the asking price, as long as I agreed to make an appearance at his dealership some time in the future.

Keith Urban

The dealer took $2,000 off the asking price, as long as I agreed to make an appearance at his dealership some time in the future. It's taken long enough, but I've finally come back to town to settle up.

The critical thing, I think, is that this is a reflection of an agreement with the City and County of Honolulu, the Senate president and the House speaker. We'd like that agreement to be honored.

Siri Hustvedt

When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from.

Rudy Giuliani

My attempt is to try to broaden the base of the Republican Party, to try to bring in people that can agree and that can disagree on that, because I think the issues that we face about terrorism, about our economy, about the growth of our economy are so important that we have to have the biggest outreach possible.

Rand Paul

We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.

The defense attorneys filed a request with the court to waive the appearance and the court agreed to do so. The investigation continues.

The decision was made after I had a very professional meeting with Louis on Tuesday, when we brought him in to review the season. Following the meeting, we decided not to offer him an extension, that the program had issues we needed to deal with as we move forward in the new Big East Conference. After the meeting, I got a sense of where we stood and there were things we couldn't agree on.

The decision is a mutual agreement between myself, my family, the doctors and the University of Washington.

Gerry Adams

The demand that has been made on me is that the IRA has to decommission its weapons before the agreement carries on, and that is a demand I cannot deliver on,

Jean Giraudoux

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

John Sullivan

We start off with the premise that Canada subsidizes lumber, ... We're complying with the panel's decision, but we don't agree with it.

We've been working around the clock and we are just putting the finishing touches on the agreement.

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

Brad Paisley

There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn't be the reasons you listen to my music.

Gabriel Byrne

I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.