Agreed Quotations

My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.

We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me.

In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.

We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!

My general sensibility is most certainly comedic. But when I signed with my manager, he said, 'I think you could do dramatic stuff as well.' So, rather than making the choice to do it, I sort of agreed and deferred. By no means does it feel close to home, but I was willing to explore it.

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

I just think age is meaningless. It's a system we've all agreed to that supposedly signals when we should develop, reach our peak and go downhill, as they say. It interferes with our natural growth.

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

I had always told my father that before working with him in the same frame as an actor, which I was petrified to do, I wanted to learn from him, so I had pleaded with him for two years before he agreed to write and direct 'Mausam.' It was our dream project and a wonderful opportunity for us to work as a family.

From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense.

My husband wanted me to be a typical socialite. We never agreed on anything, so finally we decided it wasn't going to work.

It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.

Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book.

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.

I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.

I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA was a story worth sharing. Little did we know how much bigger the platform and documentary would become after Linsanity.

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

When I was a little kid, no matter what my parents told me, I would always argue - even if I agreed with them. And I've always been a show-off. As I've gotten older, I've found ways to be more subtle about it, but that's the way I am. I suppose that has something to do with why I write and direct.

We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.

Immunologists agreed that an individual vertebrate synthesizes many millions of structurally different forms of antibody molecules even before it encounters an antigen.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.

I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I'm a revolutionary - but not in the political sense.

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.

All of us who covered the Reagans agreed that President Reagan was personable and charming, but I'm not so certain he was nice. It's hard for me to think of anyone as 'nice' when I hear him say 'The homeless are homeless because they want to be homeless.'

I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements.

I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me. I enjoyed it.

A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.

Without industry, finance and government consciously and collaboratively ensuring that capital flows to where it is needed in order to ensure the scaling up of climate change solutions, whatever deal is agreed risks never being realised.

If there's a criticism of 'Cassadaga' that I agreed with, it's that we left things in the oven too long, that songs were overstuffed, with too many ideas competing for space.

Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or they cannot rightfully unite in maintaining the government itself.

In 2004, Warner-Lambert, a division of Pfizer Inc., pled guilty to two felonies and agreed to pay $430 million for fraudulently promoting the drug Neurontin.

We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn't where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, 'Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?' And we actually agreed with that.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.

Unlike Vice President Gore, Gov. Bush says what he means and means what he says. He has said all along, for more than a month now, he wants three debates: Today our campaign has agreed with the Gore campaign to have three debates.

We've already agreed (with the county) that we'll end it (our contract) at the end of this year. We both agreed on it. They're not paying me to move out, and I'm not going to stay and take care of my contract. We both agreed that this is the best thing for both parties.

We've all agreed to certain priorities and I think that's really the important aspect, and the state's been very cooperative.

We've all agreed that if we can find a residential facility that we approve of, as well as the court, he can be released at some point to that facility to attempt to get some help.

We've agreed to the game, and we've sent the contract. We look forward to continuing our series.

We've agreed to set up a monitoring mission that is going to be launched on Thursday,

We've agreed to a review to see what the security issues are and what the requirements will be.

We've agreed the fee and we'll take things from there.

We've agreed that Craig will keep up his fitness, and after that work is finished we'll speak with him again.

We are going to solicit quotations from different collectors, because we haven't done it for a while. We were approached by the township to see if we were willing to go out and take a look. That's what the (school) board agreed to do.

There is no possibility that any consultations with Padilla's counsel will result in agreed terms of attorney access.

There is no need to talk to anyone unless and until Roger decides to play. He has indicated to me that he does not intend to play in April or May. We agreed to review everything in mid-May.

Whether one agreed with him or not, for anyone who values the independence of the Fed, it is important that the chair of the Fed maintain some distance from fiscal policy debates.

When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.

We're going to the Final Four. That's where it all is. But when I was just talking with Glen walking down the hall, he agreed with me. For some reason, this doesn't seem like the end to me. Maybe there's something more in store for this team.

We brought him back for the summer racing and we have stepped him up quickly in distance, we've kept him fresh and it has agreed with him.

We brought everybody to the table and found the one thing we all agreed on is land conservation in the Hill Country. So that's what we're doing together.

We both agreed to work with each other and give each other some time to make these decisions.

We both agreed to upgrade the relationship into a strategic partnership, ... Never has our relationship been more important than today.

We both agreed to do it as testament to the men and women of the area.

We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now.

We both agreed that this was something that doesn't represent George Mason University or our basketball program. That we needed to take immediate steps to send that message not only to Tony, but to the rest of our team and to the rest of the athletes who represent George Mason.

We're back in terms of freshness and imagination and touch. We were a wee bit nervy near the end when they scored but I think we all agreed the game should have been all over and done with.

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

Ultimately, we agreed that the best course of action would be for the Jets to go in a different direction. We wish him and his family well.

With this agreement, virtually the entire mutual fund industry has now sworn off improper trading practices and agreed to compensate investors who were harmed,

We're still going to pay the money we agreed to pay.

We're not helped by the regulations that we the counties have all agreed that we cannot replace someone once registered if they have an injury.

We have assurances by the president and vice president that the American side says they will follow the ABM treaty, ... Any possible plans must be agreed to, and that's what we discussed.

We have not agreed to sell Theo. We want to keep him.

We have not agreed to anything with Larry and there is no buyout yet. Both sides are still talking.

We have not agreed on this constitution. We have objections which are the same as we had from day one,

We have never said we wanted a Kurdish state. The Arabs have never said they wanted a totally Arab state. So I think as long as we all agreed to democracy we should be flexible and meet in the middle.

We have never agreed to have a supervised meeting or visit a place where we cannot have full access to all detainees,

What the town agreed to do, was share 45% of the sales tax revenue generated by the businesses there, with the developer, for about 14 years.

We share the tenets of the Energy Charter Treaty, and will be ready to ratify it after we have coordinated previously agreed amendments with our partners.

We hope very much that we can schedule a date and venue for a briefing on the four-party talks, ... The North Koreans have agreed to that. We just need to schedule it.

We hope to discuss the issue in the next executive committee meeting and once we have agreed we shall make the recommendation to the council before we reply to the request.

Yesterday (Sunday) the meeting of the president with the other parties agreed on the principle of forming a national security council.

We didn't want to lose him but he had a clause in his contract stating that, if a club met the agreed asking price, he could go.

We didn't want to go to court. The settlement we agreed on is the way we wanted it to be in the first place.

We have presented our plan and agreed to bring back the proposal to our respective government for consideration.

We've seen the allegation, but we have not seen any information to substantiate what would seem to us to be rather bald assertions. And we would also note that Saudi Arabia is a party to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, under which it has agreed not to obtain nuclear weapons.

We have requested the leadership of the TWU to take the actions necessary to direct its membership to immediately return to work and they have agreed to take such actions.

We have received this and have agreed to inform our members so that this order can be complied with throughout the areas where our members are striking.

There is no doubt that France supports an agreed position on close accord with Britain and Germany in the EU-3 group.

When I met Little Edie, she was clearly nuts, but there were flashes of charm and style. When I agreed to buy the house, I said that I would take it on the condition that either she leave it broom-clean - which was laughable - or that she leave it all ... and she chose to leave everything.

We're heartened by the fact that (the state Supreme Court) agreed to take another look at the rationale for the decision.

We're grateful that the Supreme Court has agreed to take on this important case.

We are all agreed that it is extremely important that as quickly as possible there is a broad-based multi-ethnic civil administration in Afghanistan.