Agreement Quotes

Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Two things I've learned: 1) you simply cannot change someone's mind on certain issues and 2) some issues are so important you cannot stop trying to.

~ J.s.b. Morse

Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

How to love is the real question. We all know to love and to keep loving more, but man's confusion comes from the differing opinions on how to love. The Church will always be accused of not loving enough by human standards - which should be its motivation to love more - however that is, in many cases, because its focus is and should also be to love on levels of eternal significance. This is the level of love that will inevitably go unnoticed by those who do not believe in eternity.

~ Criss Jami

If the breadth of perspectives is wide enough to represent the fullest range of views, consensus is unlikely. If consensus is swiftly achieved, it probably means too few voices have been heard.

~ Ron Suskind

Law, rather than harnessing the passions, is increasingly pressed into their service.

~ George F. Will

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

~ Jonathan Swift

As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?

~ Norton Juster

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

I don't often agree with me either; there's much, in fact, with which I disagree. But that's probably because I'm so dashed ingenious that I haven't a clue what I'm saying.

~ Rodney Ulyate

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

~ Jane Austen

We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.

~ Steve Goodier

Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant Southern women have always done.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Effectiveness comes when the opinion of a person comes into agreement with God’s opinion.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It felt good to sit around and agree, to have a common enemy and a shared struggle. It felt good to be understood.

~ Nadia Hashimi

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

~ William Lloyd Garrison

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

~ Ben Bernanke

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

~ J. Paul Getty

Too much agreement kills a chat.

~ Eldridge Cleaver

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

~ Wislawa Szymborska

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

~ John Ralston Saul

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

~ Martin Bashir