Agreement Quotes - page 2

In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." (Freeman Dyson)
I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence. View quote
Mikhail Kalashnikov
At that time, there was general agreement among everyone involved in women's liberation that women should have a defined sexual self-interest. View quote
Susie Bright
As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement. View quote
Alija Izetbegović
Intellectual property does not really belong in a trade agreement. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach. View quote
Paul Ricœur
Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives. View quote
Stephen Harper
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent. View quote
Jimmy Carter
We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement.... we must concentrate outside ourselves. View quote
Mark Tobey
It so coincided that Marcos had money. After the Bretton Woods agreement he started buying gold from Fort Knox. Three thousand tons, then 4,000 tons. I have documents for these: 7,000 tons. Marcos was so smart. He had it all. It's funny; America didn't understand him. View quote
Imelda Marcos
THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression. (Benjamin Graham)
Saving the biosphere depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that intersubjective accord occurs only in the noosphere. Anything short of that noospheric accord will continue to destroy the biosphere. View quote
Ken Wilber
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support. View quote
Robin Cook
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. View quote
Vernor Vinge
One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract. View quote
Anthony Trollope
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. View quote
George Orwell
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. View quote
Leon Trotsky
In fact the opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead issues insincerely painted as real and vital. It should not in the several States as well as in the Nation be prostituted to the service of the baser type of political boss. It should be so composed that there should be a reasonable agreement in the actions taken by it both in the Nation and in the several States. Judged by these standards, both of the old parties break down. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. View quote
Stephen King
"I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower." That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing. (C. S. Forester)
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. View quote
Karl Kraus
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
If there is no complete agreement between the results of one's work and the experiment, one should not allow oneself to be too discouraged. View quote
Paul Dirac
The people were merely to acknowledge the authority of the Fuehrer, or, let us say, to declare themselves in agreement with the Fuehrer. If they gave the Fuehrer their confidence then it was their concern to exercise the other functions. Thus, not the individual persons were to be selected according to the will of the people, but solely the leadership itself. View quote
Hermann Göring