Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

Duke Ellington

Roaming through the jungle of "oohs" and "ahs," searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

David Stern

Realm Realty is agreeable to the 'right in and right out' restriction and is awaiting the county's comments to that drawing. I would think that a deceleration lane, right in - right out, headache bar and sidewalk should appease most everyone. We do appreciate all the input we have received and have diligently worked to try to incorporate many of these suggestions.

Arlen Specter

The hearings will not start until there is a date agreeable to her, ... It would be unfair to start the hearings before she is ready.

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

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.

Alec Baldwin

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

It's the principle of the thing. If there is an issue, why didn't the council ask us about it, so we could correct the issue or come to a mutually agreeable solution to the problem?

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with

Nicolas Malebranche

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

Lloyd Carr

Dealing with success is more agreeable than dealing with losing, ... but it's no less difficult. Now we have to deal with all these people patting us on the back. But it's not wise to listen to that because it might distract you from what you need to get done.

Bruce Beresford

Antonio is very focused, very well-prepared, he has thought about it a lot, read about it a lot. And he is a very agreeable sort of guy to work with.

Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise.

Henry Fielding

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms

Bring hither by thy shouts, O lord of wealth, the suitor, bend his mind towards her; turn thou the right side of every agreeable suitor towards (her)!

Everyone thought this would be the least disruptive move. McFarland was agreeable to that.

There's lots of room for negotiation. We're trying to engage the local communities and tribes for mutually agreeable solutions to give tribes ownership and management of these museums.

Christopher Wren

We (the administration) feel both contracts are agreeable as to what the city and the township are looking for,

But what is woman? - only one of Nature's more agreeable blunders

Based on this meeting, we agreed to continue our discussions toward a mutually agreeable solution to this matter,

If a compromise can be reached for a mutually agreeable venue for talks, that will be decisive in the level of violence.

Samuel Johnson

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Thomas Jefferson

Sir,- I have duly received your favor of the 18th and am thankful to you for having written it, because it is more agreeable to prevent than to refuse what I do not think myself authorized to comply with

Joseph Addison

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty

Most parents are agreeable but some aren't because they don't have transportation or they have problems with scheduling baby sitters.

Winston Churchill

It is certainly more agreeable to have power to give than to receive

Dalai Lama

We need political solution, that the best way is genuine self rule. That I feel (is) mutually agreeable solution,

Ray Haynes

the arrogance of this body in completely ignoring the resolution of a lawsuit (that was settled) in a way that was agreeable to both parties.

We encourage the Libertarian Party of Central New Jersey to meet with the newly appointed township attorney, the township clerk and representatives of the administration to arrive at a mutually agreeable change.

We had hoped that we would able to reach a resolution that was agreeable to all.

Mary Shelley

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

We are delighted that Kmart will continue to be a foundation partner for MSO throughout the decade, and that our two companies have found mutually agreeable ways to improve upon our beneficial relationship.