Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Barroso

It was a great result for the British presidency. What would be the signal to public opinion if we can't agree on a budget?

It was agreed that there will be no military shows in the Palestinian streets.

It's the first time we've seen all eight Great Lakes governors and two Canadian provinces agree on standards. This region has been a profligate water waster, and we now have a set of standards on the books that helps get ourselves on the same page on how to conserve this resource.

It is very positive that the parties have agreed to meet at a high level to discuss how to improve the serious security situation.

It's almost like you're just going to keep butting heads because you only go back to the same group you couldn't agree with in the beginning.

Jim Leishman

It looks like everything is agreed and we wanted him in early so he can settle in.

Bill Simon

It makes a lot of sense. We all agree that we need a Good Samaritan cleanup program, so I think that if we get attention from the right people we have a good chance.

Jack Evans

It's a pretty normal procedure in terms of how we enforce our trademarks. In the course of enforcing that trademark ... we asked him to agree to waive any rights he had to the name, which he did.

David Roberts

It's an incredible feat that he pulled off. There are second guessers who said he shouldn't have gone alone. I don't agree with that at all. I solo in canyons all the time. It was just bad luck.

It's going to be tough without having that one awesome guy out there in front for us, but we'll make do. I think we all agree that we have more team unity this season and we're all very good friends. Win or lose, that always makes things easier.

It's going to be great because she really knows what she is talking about. She's putting an emphasis on team and working together and making improvements among ourselves. It's going to be a real good experience. I agree with all her decisions so far.

Billy Donovan

When you win, people think you're not challenged. I don't necessarily agree with that.

When he attacks Israel, this is something the Arab world can agree upon. He has been criticized for the destruction and carnage he's causing the Muslim nation. He's looking for another justification... . Criticizing Israel sounds more politically correct.

When Gale Norton agreed to the trust reform work group we bought into it; that's where they defined trust. The only thing Interior wanted in trust was the responsibility for land, and if you watch the budget that is what they are doing.

Lysander Spooner

Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or they cannot rightfully unite in maintaining the government itself.

Malcolm Turnbull

So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.

In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements.

Nelson Goodman

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

John Boyd Orr

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

James Blunt

I don't agree with superstitious routines, but there are a couple of things I'll always do before performing. I'll get together with the band and chill out, and then, just before I go on stage, I'll always check my flies.

Mo Udall

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.

Jurgen Habermas

Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.

Muqtada al Sadr

I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements.

Matt Damon

Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'

Andrew Leigh

Services are the present and future development trend for enterprise software. We've all agreed to speak the lingua franca of services. This is immensely important to customers; just as HTML enabled the explosion of the Web, SOA is doing the same for business applications.

At this time the board and I have agreed that it is in the best interest of the company for new leadership to step forward so that our turnaround plan has the best possible chance to succeed, as I know it will.

That's as far as we agreed for now. We have yet to see how to proceed.

Evolution is the most plausible explanation for life if you're using naturalistic terms, I'll agree with that.

Aaron McGruder

Every well needs occasional refreshing. I hope that this fall you will agree that the time away from the demands of deadlines has served the strip, your readers and me.

Around half of all new legislation that impacts on business derives from rules agreed by governments at the EU level.

A payment of US$4 million was included in the overall payment of US$320 million to the United States which was agreed to in 1971.

Jeff Bingaman

a path forward that we can agree upon.

The largest public lands ranching operation in the United States has agreed to support science-based management of livestock grazing, including significantly reduced livestock grazing to protect sage grouse and other sensitive species ...