Agreement Quotes - Page 5

• There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

  Douglas Hurd

  War, Rights, World

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Air, Smell, Conservative

  1990 Describing the western attitude to the Gulf crisis. In The Independent, 31 Oct.

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• In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Thinking, Years, Arms

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• The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist

  Danny Glover

  Latin, War, Iraq

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• This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  War, Conventions, Geneva

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• Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

  Lech Walesa

  Courage, Lying, Responsibility

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• If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Country, Countries Of The World, Decision

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• We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Country, Years, Needs

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• Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Flags, Results, Should

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• I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.

  Clare Short

  Break Up, Mean, Law

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

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Business, Military

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• 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.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Height, Harmony, Building

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.12

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• We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Opinion, Share, Persons

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• And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Italian, Government, Design Process

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• Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Pride, Desire, Different

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• Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

  Leon Trotsky

  Blow, Force, Knows

  What Next? (1932) ch. 14

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• 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.

  J. L. Austin

  Fun, Philosophy, Discovery

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• As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

  Ron Jaworski

  Football, Years, Nfl

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• There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

  Louis Stokes

  Authority, Cia, Mutual

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• And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

  Karen Hughes

  Party, Texas, Trying

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• Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.

  James T. Walsh

  Home, Soldier, Risk

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• People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.

  George Steinbrenner

  People, Doe, Asking

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• You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Men, Views, Vaccines

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• Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Civilization, Culture

  "In these great times" by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, Montreal, pp. 73-74, ("In these great times"), 1976.

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• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

  Edmund Burke

  Political, Politics, Littles

  Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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