Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Hoffer

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

The (hoped-for) outcome of this meeting will be some way of strengthening the agreement on the cease-fire and hopefully that parties will meet again.

The foods that promote longevity, virtue, strength, health, happiness, and joy; are juicy, smooth, substantial, and agreeable to the stomach.

Gene Robinson

The folks who are saying this is a communion-breaker are saying that this is more important than all of those things that bind us together and I just don't agree with that.

You can show a pattern and practice of prior conduct involving the same type of conspiracy to approach women through the use of state troopers ... to provide sexual favors. That's a pattern and practice that gives rise to an inference that there has been a conspiracy and an agreement to do that with respect to Ms. Jones.

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

Epicurus

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

David Weinberger

If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's not that we're not good at it; it's the problems cannot be solved because we're not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.

David Weinberger

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

Akira Suzuki

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

Alan Cumming

Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.

We're not excluding anyone as long as they agree diversity is a desirable goal in county government.

David Trimble

There are parts of this agreement that we are not happy with. But we have judged that we have enough here to build on.

There are Palestinians who see (Sharon) as someone who did a lot of practical harm to the Palestinian cause. And some people who feel he is the only strongman in Israel who would be able to implement any agreement and enforce it on his own people.

We sent in proposals since 2004 to the CPO to sit and negotiate for the new collective agreement, and it is going into 2006 now and no agreement has been met.

We still hope that Poland will join this agreement.

We still have to put together a revised site plan and have agreement with the residents. Really, what we want to demonstrate is that we want to work it out with the neighbors.

We still have negotiations to do. Our goal is to reach an agreement as soon as possible.

Ken Thompson

We are confident that shareholders will agree when they look at the facts, ... We believe that the SunTrust proposal simply won't work, and we are glad that the board has validated our view.

This never went to a court and it was just an agreement between both parties. They claimed to have a vested interest in the club, the operation of the club. They had used it as their home for many, many years.

Bertie Ahern

was prepared to take risks for the peace process, risks to secure agreement and risks to implement it.

We agreed to say I broke some team rules, and we parted ways.

We agreed to reduce our proposal and make improvements to the overall package recognizing the likelihood the pilot pension plan would be terminated.

Hu Jintao

We agreed to intensify our exchange and to develop investment ties,

Ismail Haniyeh

We agreed to hold a meeting as soon as he arrives in Gaza, in about two days time.

Jose Gomez

We agreed to give her $10 (each) just to try to help her out and get her back on her feet,

We agreed to discuss the issue of the missing with good intentions, because there's pressure on Clerides, and we wanted to help out.

Alan Bersin

We agreed to disagree. We continue to disagree about the schedule, timing and amounts in the past but agreed to continue to talk about it.

Steve Mariucci

We agreed to disagree. In my mind, it is a catch, ... It is water over the dam, but I thought Marcus had possession with his hands before he slid out of bounds. There was no ruling of a bobble and I thought he clearly had control of it with his hands before he tucked it away and slid out of bounds. Their view may be a little bit different. But you can go around and around until the cows come home and it's not going to change anything.

Ismail Haniyeh

We agreed to continue the meetings and to intensify them in order to conclude the formation of the government and to present it to the parliament for a confidence vote.

We agreed to continue talks on the relocation plan.

We agreed to continue our talks in January. Regarding the location, we have agreed on Vienna.

We agreed to come back Friday afternoon. The situation is very serious. But I think all the measures must not aggravate the situation. We must find a way out of this.