Quotes About Agree To Disagree

#1. Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

Desmond Tutu

#2. Can't we just agree to disagree on this point and move on?

Tammy Blackwell

#3. Well, we'll have to agree to disagree." I hated that phrase. It was code for, "I know you're too obtuse to ever see how I right I am, so to get any satisfaction out of this discussion, I'm going to pretend to be more reasonable than you. Oh, and get the last word in.

Jess Lourey

#4. We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance.

Goran Persson

#5. Often after arguing about differing opinions, I hear people say, "let's agree to disagree." I look forward to a time, so open-minded I'll hear people say, "I'm right and you can be, too

Paula Heller Garland

#6. My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

Katy Perry

#7. Let's all agree to disagree agreeably.

Jane E. Woodlee Hedrick

#8. ...you can always agree on one thing. You can shake hands, smile, and say, 'Yes...we will have to agree to disagree.

Ken Poirot

#9. I tell him I take anti-depressants, which leads him on a thirty-minute detour. He tells me sadness is a part of finding out who you are. I tell him getting out of bed is also a part of finding out who you are. We agree to disagree.

Hilary Winston

#10. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Regina Brett

#11. We can agree to disagree, but we don't need to be disagreeable.

John Wooden

#12. If you and someone you love have a difference of opinion on something, maybe its beset to let it stay that way. Respect each other's right to believe what you believe. Respect each other. Agree to disagree.

Karen Kingsbury

#13. At 40 years of age, I thought I knew everything. I got a reality check with this class. Kenny (Winston) has become like a big brother to me. We've learned to agree to disagree. I hope and pray that this program continues and we all keep in touch. I'm a st

Robert Hughes

#14. The thing I like about our fans is that they are smart, they are good-looking and we can agree to disagree

Martie Maguire

#15. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

Katy Perry

#16. How sad is it that this tiff sort of cheers me up? If two of the most distinguished, dedicated, and thoughtful public servants in the history of this republic could not find a way to agree to disagree, how can we expect the current crop of congressional blockheads to get along? While

Sarah Vowell

#17. Love and hatred are intertwined in life. They agree to disagree and they disagree to agree. When one is absent the other may become present. In what we hate most lay what we love most and in what we love most lay what we hate most

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#18. You'd probably rather have a milk shake than a quart of blood, too, so we'll have to agree to disagree.

Christopher Buehlman

#19. Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

Victoria Osteen

#20. There are people that say you should never use humor to talk about anything that's important or hard, and since I don't believe that, at some point there has to be a level of "agree to disagree."

Lizz Winstead

#21. When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

Bill James

#22. Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Dean Acheson

#23. All she ever said to me about him was You can only love a person that much once in your life, and I didn't know enough to agree or disagree with her. What a terrible and beautiful delusion, and how sad if it's true.

Catherine Lacey

#24. You don't need to agree with everyone what he has said, sometimes you should disagree and you just make another step called debate!

Deyth Banger

#25. Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

Rick Warren

#26. The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.

Steve Israel

#27. He held to the idea that the Jewish people, so often victims of injustice and persecution, should have a state where they could be independent and free. Think good or ill of Arik Sharon, agree or disagree with him, but that calling - a noble one - was plain and unalloyed.

Ariel Sharon

#28. It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

Sheila Jackson Lee

#29. All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Stanley Crouch

#30. The issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.

Philip Yancey

#31. I need you to be my foil!" she wailed. "I need someone to disagree with him, so I can agree with him and support him like a good wife should! Please, Evelyn! I cannot become a ruined spinster!

Tarun Shanker

#32. Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy is not necessarily that we agree, but that we participate ... Despite all the heavy problems- domestic and international- there is humor. Humor transcends partisanship.

Gerald R. Ford

#33. There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

Grover Norquist

#34. Never disagree with anyone; agree to think differently.

Debasish Mridha

#35. It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.

Oliver Bowden

#36. It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

Mary Kingsley

#37. The difference between educated people and uneducated people is that educated people have been opened up to the notion that you can disagree without fighting; whereas uneducated people, in conversation, seek to always agree
everybody agrees and agrees and that's considered basic social libation.

John McWhorter

#38. The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we agree. The true test comes when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we disagree.

Walter E. Williams

#39. If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.

Ben Brantley

#40. You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction.

Pharrell Williams

#41. Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

Robert Frost

#42. 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.

Harold Ramis

#43. I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Rick Warren

#44. I don't believe it's productive to go around and badmouth anyone that I work with, because at the end of the day, we all have to sit in front of each other and agree or disagree.

LeAnn Rimes

#45. There isn't any reason to dislike people with whom you disagree. I have lots of friends who don't agree with me.

Bill O'Reilly

#46. It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.

Megan McArdle

#47. We hope you have not made the error of supposing that to criticize is always to disagree. (...) To agree is just as much of an exercise of critical judgment on your part as to disagree.

Mortimer J. Adler

#48. We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.

Barack Obama

#49. I do not agree or disagree in everything with either one party or the other. Because all seem to me to have some truth and some error, but everyone recognizes the other's error and nobody discerns his own.

Michael Servetus

#50. It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with. Political discourse becomes isolated, and isolated discourse becomes more extreme.

Lawrence Lessig

#51. The enormously diverse culture where people can agree and disagree is just amazing, and to learn about the events that took place here over millennia has been fantastic. It's a trip I'll never forget.

Miguel Ferrer

#52. I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn't matter what we're doing or talking about, it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything.

Bernie Glassman

#53. Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.

Erik Naggum

#54. Never disagree, agree to reach the destination in a different way.

Debasish Mridha

#55. I agree with God's Word; I disagree with any condition, situation or circumstance contrary to that Word.

T. B. Joshua

#56. I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

Charles Kennedy

#57. You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.

Mortimer J. Adler

#58. A true leader is a man who can get people to work together on the points on which they agree and who can persuade others that when they disagree there are peaceful methods to settle their differences.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#59. So what if I don't agree with the Democrats? What's to disagree with? They believe everything. And what they don't believe, the Republicans do. Neither of them stands for anything they believe in, anyway.

P. J. O'Rourke

#60. I'm manifestly not the same as Alex Salmond. I'm a different gender, for example ... I'm being flippant, but maybe this is a partly gender-driven difference: I'm very keen that we find a way of reaching out across party divides to find things we agree on, as well as the things we disagree on.

Nicola Sturgeon

#61. Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

Barney Frank

#62. They say education has no end. If you still disagree with this, here is a better way to take it in; "Education has an end that never comes".

Israelmore Ayivor

#63. So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?

Norton Juster

#64. The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial.

Ayn Rand

#65. People differ to such a degree they agree on nothing,
Except death that is, and even on that they disagree.
Some say the soul goes on after the death of the body
While others claim the soul, with the body, dies too.

Mutannabi

#66. The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

Criss Jami

#67. I always enjoy listening to Rush Limbaugh. I often agree with him. Sometimes I disagree with him.

Mitt Romney

#68. It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.

Foster Friess

#69. When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.

Andy Daly

#70. Is it really that hard for you to just agree with me for once?"
"I never disagree."
"You always have an answer for everything." She shook her head. "It's insufferable.

Sarah J. Maas

#71. What I intend to do is uphold a standard of intellectual seriousness on the right. [These books] should be written in a way that they are serious, soberly argued, well researched, and make a respectable case-agree or disagree.

Adam Bellow

#72. The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you
disagree as well as those with which you agree.

John F. Kennedy

#73. I disagree with the Supreme Court's decision and I agree with the dissent. What the court did not do on its last day in session, I will do on my first day if elected president of the United States, and that is I will act to repeal ObamaCare.

Mitt Romney

#74. I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.

Tom Clancy

#75. Gary Bauer has done great things, ... I want to promise you again, you may agree with me, you may disagree with me, but I will do great things.

John McCain

#76. To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

Mortimer J. Adler

#77. You do not agree with my quest. I understand that, so much as it is possible to understand someone with whom I disagree so completely.

Brandon Sanderson

#78. Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

Mortimer J. Adler

#79. I believe that systems of religion are perfect or imperfect, true or false, just so far as they agree or disagree with Christianity; and that to the end of time all systems are to be measured by the Christian standard, and not Christianity by any other system.

John Lord

#80. The issues are complex, and so I think sometimes the best way to work things out is, well, not to work them out.

Karen Kingsbury