Quotes About Being Disagreeable

#1. I'm determined to disagree with people without being disagreeable. That's part of the empathy. Empathy doesn't just extend to cute little kids. You have to have empathy when you're talking to some guy who doesn't like black people.

Barack Obama

#2. He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation.

Chris Voss

#3. If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

Bernard Meltzer

#4. Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

Malachy McCourt

#5. None of this makes sense. At best, you've spent a lot of time failing to change someone's mind. At worst, you've made an enemy, damaged a relationship, and added to your reputation for being disagreeable.

Marshall Goldsmith

#6. We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.

Christine Gregoire

#7. She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

Rebecca West

#8. 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

#9. He's got that way of believing his opinion is the truth, but he's not disagreeable about it. He's too sure he's right to bother being disagreeable.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#10. Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

Barack Obama

#11. Josie is a Pye," said Marilla sharply, "so she can't help being disagreeable. I suppose people of that kind serve some useful purpose in society, but I must say I don't know what it is any more than I know the use of thistles.

L.M. Montgomery

#12. Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

J. Martin Kohe

#13. Wetting one's pants is no kind of self-esteem builder.

Susan Juby

#14. It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Thomas Mann

#15. I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

Martha Wainwright

#16. I'm the guy doing calisthenics. I'm doing jumping jacks and deep knee bends. I work out like a British person.

Ryan Reynolds

#17. Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.

George A. Smith

#18. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen,

Dave Eggers

#19. For whatever it is worth, I never believed Wickham's stories of maltreatment at your hands. Other than being a rather boring, disagreeable fellow, I did not think you so dishonorable that you would go against your father's wishes.

KaraLynne Mackrory

#20. The American people have worn out their patience being told by their so-called bettors that you don't know how to live your lives the right way. We need to arrange things for you so you can do things better than you would do yourself.

Rush Limbaugh

#21. Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."
Winston Churchill: "Madame,i f you were my wife, I'd drink it!"
(Exchange with Winston Churchill)

Nancy Astor The Viscountess Astor

#22. So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look.

Tite Kubo

#23. Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

Irving Kristol

#24. When I was younger, I was very princessy. I always wanted to be blond-haired and blue-eyed. This was before Mulan, so I was very upset about all the Cinderellas. I always tried to imagine that maybe Snow White was Chinese since she had black hair.

Grace Lin

#25. I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear

Joni Mitchell