Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Sowell

Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.

Robert Musil

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.

Rivers Cuomo

The internet has not granted us more control in relation to the record company because we're still bound by an agreement with them not to release our music without their consent. But they generally let us do what we want, anyway, so it doesn't matter who's officially in control.

William Lloyd Garrison

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

Yitzhak Rabin

We have the right to ensure our security, especially when it is possible to reach agreement on a political solution.

Yitzhak Rabin

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.

Yasser Arafat

I am convinced that our people are now on the way to establishing a Palestinian state. The agreement signed in Cairo is the first step in establishing the state, and therefore it should be implemented.

W. Averell Harriman

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.

Vladimir Lenin

We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

William Blake

Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

Wallace Stegner

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.

Samuel Butler

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

Kent Conrad

Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

Katy Perry

I'm not defined by where I came from.

Rafik Hariri

You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.

Larry Craig

Agreements are always the product of time and place.

Marc Newson

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

Rudy Giuliani

We don't all agree on everything. I don't agree with myself on everything.

Tina Fey

...the Rule of Agreement reminds you to “respect what your partner has created” and to at least start from an open-minded place. Start with a YES and see where that takes you.

S. I. Hayakawa

Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.

Rumi

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.

By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.

Thomas Carlyle

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

Stephen Harper

Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.

Tim Meadows

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

Tom Tancredo

The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support.

Vicente Fox

At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

Vernor Vinge

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

Richard Tyler

Agreement is the by-product of listening and understanding.

Steve Albini

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

Stephen Covey

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements

Steven Pinker

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

Rick Riordan

I have some extra costumes-" "No!" Ephialtes snapped, and for once Percy was in agreement.