Agreement Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Agreement

Read This: Ecstasy Quotes And Sayings

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.
~By Jacques Delors ~


That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.
~By James F. Byrnes ~


Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.
~By Caspar Weinberger ~


Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.
~By Werner Erhard ~


Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~


The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
~By Bashar al-Assad ~


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.
~By Alija Izetbegovic ~


Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.
~By Lord Edward Cecil ~


Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
~By Chauncey Wright ~


I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.
~By Robin Cook ~


In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.
~By Lord Chandos ~


It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
~By Paddy Ashdown ~


Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~


We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
~By Xavier Becerra ~


The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.
~By Leland Stanford ~


Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~


In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.
~By Fredric Jameson ~


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


I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.
~By Scott McCallum ~


If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.
~By Jacques Delors ~


If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
~By Alfred P. Sloan ~


Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone.
~By James Mooney ~


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.
~By William Glasser ~


Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.
~By William McKinley ~


Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.
~By John S. Tanner ~


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.
~By Clare Short ~


It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.
~By Martin Bashir ~


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.
~By Jeane Kirkpatrick ~


I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused.
~By Scott Bakula ~


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.
~By Gerry Adams ~


During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.
~By George William Norris ~


Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.
~By Josiah Royce ~


It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~


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.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~


Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
~By Tacitus ~


We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
~By Walter Crane ~


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.
~By Paul Simon ~


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.
~By Louis Stokes ~


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.
~By Danny Glover ~


In the past there were various suggestions in the framework of financial and other agreements to benefit with Iran. But Iran interpreted those suggestions in a mistaken way and deceived the international community.
~By Moshe Katsav ~


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.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~


Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.
~By Stephen F. Lynch ~


In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
~By John L. Lewis ~


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.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~


There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
~By Sitting Bull ~


I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
~By Karl Lehmann ~


Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
~By Lope de Vega ~


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.
~By Richard Cobden ~


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.
~By Douglas Hurd ~


Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market.
~By Russ Feingold ~


We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no.
~By Andrea Mackris ~


China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement.
~By David Bonior ~


It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.
~By Paul Harris ~


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.
~By Ron Jaworski ~


I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.
~By Shaquille O'Neal ~


Too much agreement kills the chat.
~By John Jay Chapman ~


Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~


We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.
~By Tom Daschle ~


The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
~By Gerry Adams ~


When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.
~By John Hume ~


Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.
~By Donald L. Carcieri ~


Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~


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.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~


We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.
~By Anna Lindh ~


I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.
~By Paula Danziger ~


Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~


The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.
~By James F. Byrnes ~


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.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~


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.
~By James T. Walsh ~


Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
~By Karl Kraus ~


Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~


I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.
~By Elizabeth Dole ~


We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.
~By Silvan Shalom ~


As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~


My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
~By Roseanne Barr ~


As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.
~By Robert Mueller ~


At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
~By Gerry Adams ~


And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
~By Umberto Guidoni ~


The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
~By William Lloyd Garrison ~


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.
~By Lech Walesa ~


In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption.
~By Jerry Costello ~


This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
~By Wilhelm Keitel ~


Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.
~By Thom Mayne ~


We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
~By Gerry Adams ~


There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
~By E. B. White ~


Too much agreement kills a chat.
~By Eldridge Cleaver ~


There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.
~By Mark Shields ~


You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.
~By Donald Evans ~


The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~


You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~


Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
~By George Eliot ~


A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
~By Paul Getty ~


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.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~


The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.
~By Paul Cellucci ~


But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.
~By Donald Evans ~


Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
~By Alfred Korzybski ~


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.
~By John Hume ~


At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~


It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
~By E. M. Forster ~


That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it; Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.
~By Hassan Nasrallah ~

Read This: Parting Quotes And Sayings
June 4 ,2023
All content on this page is copyright protected by ispace1. No part of the content on this page should be copied or republished in any manner without obtaining our prior necessary written permission.
Related Articles
Marriage Quotes And Sayings
Quotes And Sayings About Marriage
Sincerity Quotes And Sayings
Quotes And Sayings About Sincerity
Husbands Quotes And Sayings
Quotes And Sayings About Husbands
Karma Quotes And Sayings
Quotes And Sayings About Karma
Sophistication Quotes And Sayings
Quotes And Sayings About Sophistication