A Quotes
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“Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.”
“Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.”
Source: the new industrial state
“Agreeable could sometimes pass as obedient.”
Source: Headcase
“Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786
“Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.”
“Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.”
Source: The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes
“Agreed. We could set a trap for him. See if he goes for it.”
“How would we do that?”
Conversation between ‘Borge’ and ‘Jens’
The Informer by Steen Langstrup”
Source: The Informer
“Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour." "Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me ... no competition ... best thing that ever happened to you ... " " I don't remember that last part," I say, hoping it's too dim in here for the cameras to pick up my blush. " Oh, that's right. That's what I was thinking," he says " Scoot over, I'm freezing.”
“Agreeing on the "why" takes all the romance out of everything, takes all the seduction. Seduction used to be an art. Now of course it's brutish and it's predatory and it's bad.”
“Agreeing to differ.
[Lat., Discors concordia.]”
“Agreeing to disagree is a prerogative only of those who live under a democratic system.”
Source: Letters From Burma:
“Agreeing to disagree' isn't license to hold hateful and condemning beliefs about me as though it doesn't negatively impact our relationship.”
“Agreeing to do anything with him felt too permanent, too accepting of the bargain between us. 'What do you want with me? You said you'd tell me here. So tell me.'
Rhys leaned back in his chair, folding powerful arms that even the fine clothes couldn't hide. 'For this week? I want you to learn how to read.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.”
“Agreeing to something does not make that thing any less harmful for our bodies or minds. It is psychologically exhausting, damaging and toxic to fake a connection to someone, especially a sexual connection. Not being free to be yourself in such a vulnerable and intimate situation is physically and psychologically exhausting. Being paid to have sex on someone else’s terms is the farthest thing from sexual autonomy that exists.”
Source: Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery
“Agreement in a dialogue can lead to a cul-de-sac.”
Source: OASE 70: Architecture and Literature
“Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.”
“Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.”
“Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.”
“Agreement is the by-product of listening and understanding.”
“Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.”
“Agreement to change is confirmed not by the nodding of the head but by the bending of the heart.”
“Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?”
“Agreements are always the product of time and place.”
“Agreements. Specifically, a treaty ratified by all the orders of whimsical like forms who dwell here that affords a measure of security for mortal caretakers. In a world where mortal man has become the dominant force, most creatures of enchantment have fled to refuges like this one.”
Source: Fablehaven
“Agres just shrugs somewhat distracted from Tria he continues to look for someone Tria just folds her arms in frustration Agres squints a little to see who he's looking for “A-ha! Found you!”
Source: JACQUERIE. Volume II
“Agres look!” Tria pointed Agres looked around “Very clever....” cheeky bastard Tria and Agres now found themselves back on a mountain top oh on not again”
Source: Putsch: Volume I Chapter Sampler
“Agres!” she hissed again even louder this time “WHAT!” Tria smiled “Oh good you are alive.”
Source: Putsch: Volume I Chapter Sampler
“Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.”
“Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a more modernized agriculture helps not only farmers but also helps consumers.”
“Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.”
“Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.”
“Agricultural demand for water - probably the largest threat to freshwater species - continues to increase. ... Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity - primarily the conversion of habitat to agricultural uses ... - have not diminished.”
“Agricultural development is essential for sustainable food security.”
“Agricultural oil production is, and always has been, about industry. It was never about health.”
“Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.”
Source: Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences
“Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.”
Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold
“Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What sustainability depends on isn't agri- so much as culture.”
Source: The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
“Agricultural technology is therapeutic”
“Agriculture and intercultural dialogue: our common heritage.”
“Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Agriculture had not yet been invented and the land was a raw, untamed expanse, yielding its bounty only to those skilled in the ancient arts of survival. Mother Earth was still a virgin, untouched by cultivation, exploitation and sin.”
Source: A Thousand Names
“Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.”
“Agriculture, however, is not and never has been a single monolithic interest in our society. We have always known differences among farmers of different regions, different crops, and different incomes. The difference in the forms of political organization have been determined principally by the manner in which economic differences have been resolved. (pp. 15–16)”
Source: Decline of Agrarian Democracy
“Agriculture is an honorable way to become poor”
Source: A Dangerous Fortune
“Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.”
“Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.”
“Agriculture is in danger. The whole world is in danger. We need to learn to adapt. If we
don't, we'll face catastrophic consequence on a scale you cannot imagine.”
“Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.”
“Agriculture is not just about growing crops or raising livestock — it's a way of life that sustains communities, empowers individuals, and connects us to the land. That golden door to freedom symbolizes self-sufficiency, sustainability, and the ability to nourish not only ourselves but the world.”