Quotes on Agreement

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

I cannot penetrate the soul of Arafat. I cannot know in advance whether, behind all the masks, he's the kind of leader who can reach an agreement or whether he wants to be the Moses of the Palestinians, staying in front of the river and not crossing into the promised land.

The Paris climate agreement may be a harbinger of the spirit and mindset needed to sustain genuine global cooperation.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

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

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

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

The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.

Make fair agreements and stick to them

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium — by that same right Germany takes over Schleswig; it is the right of civilisation as against barbarism, of progress as against stability.

The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire of the people of both countries to practice what they preach when they speak of the good neighbor. In the solution of the grave problems that face the world today, frank dealing, cooperation and a spirit of give and take between nations is more important than ever before.

As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.