61 Agreement Quotes

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification - the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.

I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.

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

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

And it came into hooch's mind that when both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerfully close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent (XLI).

That's as well said, as if I had said it myself.

To secure ourselves in this use, each contracts, or will ultimately contract, with his fellows not to encroach upon those portions of the earth which they are actually using, in return for their agreement not to encroach upon that portion of the earth which he is actually using.

'This is a day we should treasure - a day when agreement and accommodation have replaced days of difference and division.' (April 11, 1998 - the day the Good Friday Agreement was signed)

Prudence: 'He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.'

' Mmmm. Aye. Oh aye. Y'know?'

In my opinion it is a grand book... Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

Right here in the Oval Office I sat down with Mr. Pachachi and Chalabi and al-Hakim, people from different parts of the country that have made the firm commitment, that they want a constitution eventually written that recognizes minority rights and freedom of religion.

That makes sense to me, doesn't it?

You like potato and I like po-tah-to, You like tomato and I like to-mah-to; Potato, po-tah-to, tomato, to-mah-to - Let's call the whole thing off!

'I totally agree with you, except for the part about the thing.'

Paddy Ashdown: ...this is an agreement which the right hon. Lady will be entitled to regard with a certain pride and satisfaction as she looks back on the twilight days of her premiership...

I don't have as complete and overall philosophy as he does. I agree with some of the things he says. I've seen things that he said that I didn't agree with. But certainly what he says about the engineering of consent seems valid. Recently Chomsky gave a speech about what it means to oppose terrorism which I was very impressed by, because he essentially said that we should put an end to terrorism, and that includes the terrorism against the US but also the terrorism committed by the US... and I agree. --Richard Stallman, November 2001 [262]

Unlike members of Congress, Big Business knew what the WTO agreements contained. That's because corporate lobbyists helped draft them.

In trying to understand her, we must not be distracted ... by considering how far, and at what points we agree or disagree. ... I cannot conceive of anybody's agreeing with all of her views, or of not disagreeing violently with some of them. But agreement and rejection are secondary: what matters is to make contact with a great soul.

'I can't have your subjects throwing my family over the balcony, that would never do.' 'Good,' said Snibril. 'I'll do it myself.'

I said, mmh... yes, But not yet, mmh... yes, Mmh... Yes.

'Awwwwwwwwwwww yeah.'

'Let it be so.'

Agreed to differ.

Agree to disagree.

Them's my sentiments.

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

Great wits jump.

Silence gives consent.

'Give me a Hell Yeah!'