Agreement Quotes

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement. (Lope de Vega)
Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage. View quote
André Maurois
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. View quote
Robert Mugabe
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. View quote
Edmund Burke
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. View quote
Vitruvius
Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here. Then, I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until the next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement, and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. View quote
Alfred P. Sloan
Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. View quote
Miguel Ángel Ruiz
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. View quote
George Eliot
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
My people and I," he said, "have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please. View quote
Frederick II of Prussia
It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement. (Yitzhak Rabin)
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Order gives due measure to the members of a work considered separately, and symmetrical agreement to the proportions of the whole. It is an adjustment according to quantity. By this I mean the selection of modules from the members of the work itself and, starting from these individual parts of members, constructing the whole work to correspond. View quote
Vitruvius
Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people. View quote
Thom Mayne
When people are divided, the only solution is agreement. View quote
John Hume
There is no reason why agreement on particular points should not be both possible and advantageous to the so-called neutrals and to one or more of the blocs, either existing or in the process of formation, within the League of Nations. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement. (W. Averell Harriman)
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement. View quote
William Glasser
A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement. View quote
Francis Crick
The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons. View quote
Konstantin Chernenko
Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements. View quote
Anthony Eden
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