I Quotes
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“I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say "If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it." But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.”
“I agree with Marco [Rubio] that we can't afford another four years like the last eight years that we've had under [Barack] Obama, for sure. That we concur on. I think we need someone with proven executive leadership to be able to make that case to the American people.”
“I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.”
“I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.”
“I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.”
“I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.”
“I agree with O'Toole that custom and comfort are impediments to change. However, it is important to recognize that resistance to change is logical as well. The new "change masters" literature seems to take change as the norm. It isn't. Humans naturally see change as risky because it is risky, just as mutations in genes are mostly destructive. You would not want to go to work were everything changed every week! The phone system, the office assignments, who reports to who, and the whole set of job expectations.”
“I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.”
“I agree with people who say we want more income equality; we want more consumer protection; and we want sounder banks. I agree with all that.”
“I agree with Peter Drucker that the culture and legal systems of the United Statesare especially favorable to shareholder interests, compared to other interests and compared to most other countries. Indeed, there are many other countries where any good going to public shareholders has a very low priority and almost every other constituency stands higher in line.”
“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of God, but good reasons for supposing that there is no God at all. From this perspective, from what Unamuno called the 'tragic sense of life', from this despair, faith comes to the rescue, not only as something nonrational but in a sense irrational. For Unamuno the great symbol of a person of faith was his Spanish hero Don Quixote. Faith is indeed quixotic. It is absurd. Let us admit it. Let us concede to everything! To a rational mind the world looks like a world without God. It looks like a world with no hope for another life. To think otherwise, to believe in spite of appearances, is surely a kind of madness. The atheist sees clearly that windmills are in fact only windmills, that Dulcinea is just a poor country bumpkin with a homely face and an unpleasant smell. The atheist is a Sarah, justifiably laughing in her old age at Abraham's belief that God will give them a son.
What can be said in reply? How can a fideist admit that faith is a kind of madness, a dream fed by passionate desire, and yet maintain that one is not mad to make the leap?”
“I agree with Pres. Barack Obama, Iraqis need a political solution. No war in Iraq!”
“I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.”
“I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.”
“I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.”
“I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.”
“I agree with the basic principle that anybody who wants to serve in our armed forces and make sacrifices on our behalf, on behalf of our national security, anybody should be able to serve. And they shouldn't have to lie about who they are in order to serve.”
“I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of domestic discretionary, which is welfare, education, all the stuff the government does, parks, FBI, and it shouldn't be coming out of Medicaid.”
“I agree with the Lev Tolstoy quote completely, but I also feel like there's more to it. What is a happy family and an unhappy family? We're probably both of those things at the same time.”
“I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.”
“I agree with the notion of change. Change is good. Change is necessary. Having a North Star (something to chase) is always good, but it doesn’t have to lock you in to your own detriment. Lives can change. Purpose can change. And while you can still be in pursuit of your North Star, your path can change as well.”
“I agree with the president [Barack Obama]. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or Iraq - that is off the table.”
“I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.”
“I agree with the secretary [Hillary Clinton] that I think what has to happen - and let me just mention what King Abdullah of Jordan said. I think he hit the nail on the head.”
“I agree with the sentiment that it's probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren't so than to not believe something - you know, to believe in a lie.”
“I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.”
“I agree with those who argue that it is possible to distil from the religions of the world their common values and relevance. As far as I'm concerned I am involved in a complementary process with people who have a moral or spiritual commitment to human rights.”
“I agree with Warren to keep it simple and not use higher mathematics in your analysis.”
“I agree with what the Chairman Greenspan said whatever it is that he did say.”
“I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They're the antichrist.”
“I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.”
“I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion. I can't relate to it either, as for grunge music, well that was the death kneel for a lot of the glam metal hair bands of the 80's, so I really do not care for grunge. I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music.”
“I agree with you because I don’t want to argue or fight, not because you are right. Sometimes peace feels more important than proving a point. I have learned that not every truth needs to be spoken, not every misunderstanding needs to be cleared. Some people only listen to reply, not to understand. So I stay quiet, not out of weakness, but out of wisdom. Because I have realized that keeping my peace is worth more than winning any argument.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“I agree with you. Everyone gets lonely sometimes.”
Source: Screwdrivered
“I agree with you,” Marron said quietly. “For what it’s worth.”
Perry nodded in thanks. It was worth a lot just then.”
Source: Through the Ever Night
“I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.”
“I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State
“I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a right to dream dreams, if they are not contradicted by the evident laws of God's word, or God's world.”
Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.”
Source: LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate
“I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets.”
“I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice. truth advances, & error recedes step by step only; and to do to our fellow-men the most good in our power, we must lead where we can, follow where we cannot, and still go with them, watching always the favorable moment for helping them to another step.
[Comment on establishing Jefferson's University of Virginia, a secular college, in a letter to Thomas Cooper 7 October 1814]”
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that.”
“I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.”
“I agree, Dad. I was just explaining to the woman why we don’t look anything alike and why you would have been younger than me when I was born. It doesn’t mean I don’t love you ‘cause you know I do. Make one snotty comment in anger when you’re twelve years old going through puberty and getting grounded, and you pay for it for the rest of your life. Parents ain’t got no sense of humor. (Omari)”
Source: Born Of Ice: Number 3 in series
“I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.”
“I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.”
“I agree: Americans can be very apathetic. We're not proactive. We sit and watch TV.”
“I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.”
“I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“I-ai strâns genunchii şi ai sărutat-o, nu opune rezistenţă, ar fi culmea, doar ştie atât de multe despre tine, iar de o bună bucată de timp te apără de rele şi tu acum închizi ochii şi îţi scufunzi sufletul în sărutul ăsta lung.”
Source: Exerciţii de echilibru