Agreement Quotes - Page 8

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please.

I don't care about the past.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

A partial Jewish State is not the end, but only the beginning. ... I am certain that we will not be prevented from settling in the other parts of the country, either by mutual agreements with our Arab neighbors or by some other means. . . [If the Arabs refuse] we shall have to speak to them in a different language. But we shall only have another language if we have a state.

Each party should gain from the negotiation.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Heaven invades earth when there is agreement here to what exists there. Honestly, that's how it happens.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

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 should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.

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

I would like to deal with a person who is able to take responsible decisions and implement the agreements reached. The name [Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton] does not matter.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.

There are many people who have big plans but their big plans never come true. The reason is, too many people have big plans but fail to keep their small agreements.

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear

Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.

McCarthy shakes his head in agreement with the referee.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in known chemistry for the belief that long sequences of reactions can organize spontaneously -- and every reason to believe that they cannot. The problem of achieving sufficient specificity, whether in aqueous solution or on the surface of a mineral, is so severe that the chance of closing a cycle of reactions as complex as the reverse citric acid cycle, for example, is negligible.