#agreement

Writers should provoke disagreement. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#provoke #should #writers

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears. ↗

— J. Sidlow Baxter

#arguement #communication #conflict #disagreement #smile

Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant Southern women have always done. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#courage #misery #southern-women #courage

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#apart #between #cannot #defined #differ

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument. ↗

— Iain Pears

#blind-faith #disagreement #discussion #doctrine #faith

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists. ↗

— Peter Baynham

#disagreement #i

I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#disagreement #respect

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#husband #i #mutual #pact #sign

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#agreement #beautiful #coming #foundation #good

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. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #arguing #been #difficulties #doors