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I think we've made the effort to be as agreeable as we can, and now it's time for us as a committee to make a decision and move on, we can't continue to waste time on a person who was subpoenaed who doesn't follow through on what's required. – Bennie Thompson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving – George Washington	added by ValidVibes 3 years ago
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult. – Sir Winston Churchill	added by ValidVibes 3 years ago
I'm surprised how good religion is for people, religious people are more agreeable, they're happier, they live longer. – Lyle Ungar	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Again, I look forward to welcoming you to the House on a mutually agreeable date for this address when government has been opened. – Nancy Pelosi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary, it fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. – Winston Churchill	Found on CNN 6 years ago
That’s agreeable with the victim’s family, it’s two people with a lot of issues between them. We are trying to resolve it in a way that’s good for all. Prison would not do this kid any good. – Polk County Attorney John Sarcone	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Funnily enough, when it became agreeable to talk about it, we never did, we never talked about it... even my children, they didn't know. We never discussed it. – Joan Joslin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I hope Mark Muhammad is more agreeable than the hate-filled rants heard by the Nation of Louis Farrakhan, Mr. Louis Farrakhan, our campuses, our universities, our school boards need less hatred and racial division. We are desperate for leaders who, with a pure heart, are interested in educating children and young adults without politics or agendas. – Caleb Bonham	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Sometimes if I’m in a state of mind where I feel traumatized or confused, if someone suggests something to me I may just agree – to just be agreeable. – Janelle Pflager	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. – Thomas Aquinas	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy. Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence. – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne	added by anonymous 9 years ago
To always be loved one must ever be agreeable. – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. – Henry James	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. – John Kenneth Galbraith	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 10 years ago
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. – Horace	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When men are doubtful of the true state of things, their wishes lead them to believe in what is most agreeable. – Arrianus	added by anonymous 12 years ago
We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable. – Goethe	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us. – Hazlitt	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak. – Francois La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth. – Sir John A. MacDonald	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort. – James Goldsmith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them. – Jane Austen	added by anonymous 13 years ago

I think we've made the effort to be as agreeable as we can, and now it's time for us as a committee to make a decision and move on, we can't continue to waste time on a person who was subpoenaed who doesn't follow through on what's required.

– Bennie Thompson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving

– George Washington

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

– Sir Winston Churchill

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

I'm surprised how good religion is for people, religious people are more agreeable, they're happier, they live longer.

– Lyle Ungar

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Again, I look forward to welcoming you to the House on a mutually agreeable date for this address when government has been opened.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary, it fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

– Winston Churchill

Found on CNN
6 years ago

That’s agreeable with the victim’s family, it’s two people with a lot of issues between them. We are trying to resolve it in a way that’s good for all. Prison would not do this kid any good.

– Polk County Attorney John Sarcone

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Funnily enough, when it became agreeable to talk about it, we never did, we never talked about it... even my children, they didn't know. We never discussed it.

– Joan Joslin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I hope Mark Muhammad is more agreeable than the hate-filled rants heard by the Nation of Louis Farrakhan, Mr. Louis Farrakhan, our campuses, our universities, our school boards need less hatred and racial division. We are desperate for leaders who, with a pure heart, are interested in educating children and young adults without politics or agendas.

– Caleb Bonham

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Sometimes if I’m in a state of mind where I feel traumatized or confused, if someone suggests something to me I may just agree – to just be agreeable.

– Janelle Pflager

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

– Thomas Aquinas

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy. Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.

– William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

added by anonymous
9 years ago

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu