There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
A. J. P. Taylorburak
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
Adam Grant
Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.
Akira Suzuki
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.
Alec Baldwin
I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life.
Alfonso A. Ossorio
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
Alistair Cooke
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Aneurin Bevan
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Arnold Bennett
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
Barry Goldwater
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
Bayard Taylor
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
Benjamin Spock
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
Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.
Bill Maher
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
Blaise Pascal
Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
Bob Ehrlich
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.
That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.
Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.
I will attack ideas very hard. I am not shy about that one bit. So I don't want people to think that because I had a call for civility that that means I shy away from debate and that I'm agreeable. That's not the case. What is the case is that I will not question who you are as a person.
Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground - if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
If I have my opinion about something, you have your opinion about something, we don't have to fight over it. And we can have a conversation. We can also disagree without being disagreeable, and we can just disagree, which is fine. It doesn't mean that I don't like you, or you don't like me. We just disagree.
Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.
Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.
I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.
When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
'The Dublin Magazine' has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity.
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.
We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.
It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such an one more agreeable and interesting.
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
