Sayings About Disagreeing With Someone

#1. Disagreeing with someone does not mean that they have to be enemies or opponents.

Christina Engela

#2. Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

Peter Drucker

#3. I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head

Mira Grant

#4. I think so many young girls get caught up in the challenge of being with somebody who's dangerous, who's bad, who's enticing, who's all of those things, and you forget what it's like to enjoy simple love.

Nikki Reed

#5. There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

Vasily Grossman

#6. In a foolish and loud manner he had argued politics; he had been rude in his disagreeing, and only the adroit tact of his host had sufficed to save the evening. How much I have to learn, Childan thought. They're so graceful and polite. And I - the white barbarian. It is true.

Philip K. Dick

#7. Empathy is the accurate understanding of another person'ts internal experience. It has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing with that experience. Unlike sympathy, it makes no assumptions about how the other person is feeling.

Madeline Levine

#8. My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.

Patti Davis

#9. I see people everywhere disagreeing, who actually agree with each-other, but cannot see that they agree.

Bryant McGill

#10. 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

#11. this burden weighs so heavily
when our demons we must carry
clinging to this fleeting breath
dying for a fighting chance

The Phantoms

#12. Author sees the "congested idealism" of the generally discontent as reservoir that will support centralized power even while disagreeing with many specific provisions.

Sinclair Lewis

#13. Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.

Amanda Lindhout

#14. Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president.

John Conyers

#15. Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#16. If we are to believe anything, we must get used to disagreeing with lots of other people.

Dale C. Allison Jr.

#17. LIVING your life and NOT acting it is the true art.

Mykyta Isagulov

#18. Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. In fifteen years, all those disturbing biological blobs would be out on Kareenburg's streets, wearing strange fashions, listening to annoying music, and disagreeing politically with their beleaguered parents.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#20. What can I say? Some women are killers.

Alyson Serena Stone

#21. You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

Irwin Shaw

#22. Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. That's why they go into acting!

Penny Marshall

#23. Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of groupthink than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take." In person you hash things out.

David Weigel

#24. The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Craig Bruce

#25. It had been a while since he'd had a woman and that was Emma's fault too. Ever since she'd walked into his office in mid-June, he could think of nothing but her.

Sasha Gold

#26. The trouble is that you won't get the scientists to agree on a course of action. It is almost instinctive in science to accept contrary views, because disagreeing gives you guidance to experimental tests of ideas - your own and those offered by others ... .

Frederick Seitz

#27. If you didn't voice your opinion, [Steve Jobs] would mow you down," said Cook. "He takes contrary positions to create more discussion, because it may lead to a better result. So if you don't feel comfortable disagreeing, then you'll never survive.

Walter Isaacson

#28. Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone.

Wendy E. Long

#29. We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

Joseph Lancaster

#30. We newspaper readers all have our pet vexations. Somewhere in one of those sections is the column we anxiously turn to for the sole purpose of disagreeing with the columnist. Volubly.

Barbara Kingsolver

#31. soon as voices are raised productivity is lost. Disagreeing for disagreement's sake won't get you very far. To win a heated argument, you have to keep your cool.

Dana Perino

#32. Gettin' old is shit, kid. Avoid that as long as ya can!

Russ Linton

#33. [On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

Fanny Kemble

#34. Love is born from disagreeing over something we believe in. Hate is born from disagreeing over something we fear.

Craig Stone

#35. Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

Robert Frost

#36. I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic Church. I could not possibly know that I disagreed with religion unless I knew what I was disagreeing with.

Amber Heard

#37. You've got to be able to know someone really well to be able to have a row and then also walk away from it and not have it matter, especially in this business. That doesn't mean to say we have many rows but I think the nearest thing to a row would be just flatly disagreeing with something .

Ridley Scott

#38. People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

Bob Dylan

#39. I wish there wasn't such a division between people who believe certain things and people who don't. It seems vastly hypocritical on both ends, these two groups of people both claiming to believe in good things and yet willing to do bad things to each other for disagreeing.

Kevin Breel