#agreeing

The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice. ↗

— Lactantius

#being #come #declare #filled #god

Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders. ↗

— George William Norris

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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it. ↗

— Gary Numan

#agreeing #any #anyone #asking #assure

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#agreeing #extremists #means #them #think

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#doing #interested #lives #movies #people

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting. ↗

— Cyrus Vance

#against #beyond #disagreeing #fighting #interests

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#after #agreeing #approached #campaigning #ended

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. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#agreeing #agreement #collective #difficult #find

You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#almost #called #even #expert #friend

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#comfort #create #dialogue #egos #flatter