There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
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.
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
The only way to store information is by agreement. The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
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.
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.
I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.
It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.
We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement
There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism
If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.
It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.
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