I'm proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day.
It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or to monitor compliance with the existing legal ban on biological weapons.
Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.
I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.
I have some extra costumes-" "No!" Ephialtes snapped, and for once Percy was in agreement.
Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.
Time is finite and the demands of the imagination and also the demands of the world are infinite, so sort of brokering some kind of agreement between those things is a continual, and for me, and ever-changing challenge.
There is an Arabic proverb which says that "Peace comes from understanding, not agreement. " Agreements are more easily broken than made; but understanding never. It is urgent, therefore, and in the interest of peace, that there be better understanding among nations. As people we are one, seeking the same goal. As nations, we lose each other down the different paths we choose to fulfill our national objectives. that is why we must understand each other better.
My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.
Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.
What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.
I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan.
The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.
Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.
We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?
You know how we say things like "I just have to be true to myself"? What does that mean? Great people always say, "There's something I was meant to do. " That knowingness is what the soul understands. You have fundamental agreements that you simply feel. You can't put your finger on them because they reveal themselves to you within the context of your life through coincidence, synchronicity, and obligations you can't get out of. Together, these things form the whole of your sacred contract.