Agreement Quotes

• The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

  Kin Hubbard

  Skins, Fool, Ready

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• Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Development, Weapons

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.251, Pan Macmillan

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• Make fair agreements and stick to them

  Confucius

  Sticks, Fairs

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• Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

  Jimmy Carter

  Winning, Sides, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Movie, Silly

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• When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

  John Hume

  People, Divided, Solutions

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Honor, Four

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• Too much agreement kills a chat.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Funny, Communication, Too Much

  Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.56, Macmillan

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• I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Cynicism, Favourite, Altruism

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• One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

  Ira Gershwin

  Happiness, Music, Very Happy

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• My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Wisdom, Sarcasm

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Lothair”

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• Don't make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Sadness, Want, Assumption

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Political, Boring

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

  E. B. White

  Country, People, Disagreement

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• I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values.

  Moshe Katsav

  Israel, Iran, Community

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Interview with Farnoush Ram, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Two, Earth

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• I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.

  Jules Massenet

  Beautiful, Writing, Years

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• It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

  Jean Rostand

  Soul, May, Enough

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

  Walter Crane

  Art, People, Unity

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• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  Xavier Becerra

  Country, Hate, Thinking

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• There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Loss, Greatness, Self

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• By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Development, World, Machinery

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• 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.

  Nelson Goodman

  Different, World, Defined

  Nelson Goodman (1978). “Ways of Worldmaking”, p.17, Hackett Publishing

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• There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

  Sitting Bull

  Home, Trying, Sound

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