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We served together for 25 years( in the Senate). We disagreed, but we were never disagreeable with one another -- not one time that I can think of, i found Bob to be a man of principle, pragmatism and enormous integrity. He came into the arena with certain guiding principles to begin with : devotion to country, to fair play, to decency, to dignity, to honor, to -- literally -- attempting to find the common good. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable. – Justice William J. Brennan	added by Normando 4 years ago
I love the guy, i think he's fantastic even though he and I frequently disagree. I always have found him to be someone who can disagree without being disagreeable. – Utah Republican Mike Lee	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think it’s wonderful that finally the system corrected itself, we don’t want to set a precedent where people can walk up to speeches they find disagreeable and steal them. I mean that’s really not what America is about. – Lucian Wintrich	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Dartmouth is and will remain committed to robust debate, respectful dialogue, and discussion, with the understanding that such interactions will sometimes be difficult or disagreeable, as an academic community, we are committed to free speech and open inquiry in all matters. Our students, faculty, and staff enjoy the freedom to speak, write, listen and challenge ideas in pursuit of better learning and understanding. – Diana Lawrence	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I think that the majority of Notre Dame students are committed to free speech and open dialogue on campus and that these protests are being driven by a very vocal minority who seek to disrupt the event, this is part of a larger trend of students who want to shut down ideas that Notre Dame students find disagreeable. The irony is that ‘ tolerance ’ is the watchword on campuses these days, yet only certain ideas are apparently worthy of being tolerated. – Kate Hardiman	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
He (Blatter) asked us face to face to support him for what would be his last mandate, i have the disagreeable feeling of having proffered my support on the basis of a lie. – Michel Platini	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! – Sir William Schwenck Gilbert	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work. – Leonard Cohen	added by anonymous 9 years ago
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake. – Laurence Sterne	added by anonymous 9 years ago
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. – Sydney J. Harris	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention. – William S. Burroughs	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. – John Keats	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armour-proof against painful emotions; nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer. – Von Humboldt	added by anonymous 12 years ago
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life. – James Goldsmith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire. – Ovid, Amorum, Book 2, 19, 3	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise. – Socrates, Phaedrus, sct. 275	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. – Josiah Quincy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy. – Johann Georg von Zimmermann	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable. – J. Martin Kohe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. – Frank Moore Colby	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them. – Oliver Wendell Holmes	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We served together for 25 years( in the Senate). We disagreed, but we were never disagreeable with one another -- not one time that I can think of, i found Bob to be a man of principle, pragmatism and enormous integrity. He came into the arena with certain guiding principles to begin with : devotion to country, to fair play, to decency, to dignity, to honor, to -- literally -- attempting to find the common good.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.

– Justice William J. Brennan

added by Normando
4 years ago

I love the guy, i think he's fantastic even though he and I frequently disagree. I always have found him to be someone who can disagree without being disagreeable.

– Utah Republican Mike Lee

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think it’s wonderful that finally the system corrected itself, we don’t want to set a precedent where people can walk up to speeches they find disagreeable and steal them. I mean that’s really not what America is about.

– Lucian Wintrich

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Dartmouth is and will remain committed to robust debate, respectful dialogue, and discussion, with the understanding that such interactions will sometimes be difficult or disagreeable, as an academic community, we are committed to free speech and open inquiry in all matters. Our students, faculty, and staff enjoy the freedom to speak, write, listen and challenge ideas in pursuit of better learning and understanding.

– Diana Lawrence

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think that the majority of Notre Dame students are committed to free speech and open dialogue on campus and that these protests are being driven by a very vocal minority who seek to disrupt the event, this is part of a larger trend of students who want to shut down ideas that Notre Dame students find disagreeable. The irony is that ‘ tolerance ’ is the watchword on campuses these days, yet only certain ideas are apparently worthy of being tolerated.

– Kate Hardiman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

He (Blatter) asked us face to face to support him for what would be his last mandate, i have the disagreeable feeling of having proffered my support on the basis of a lie.

– Michel Platini

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

– Sir William Schwenck Gilbert

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

– Leonard Cohen

added by anonymous
9 years ago

First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

– Laurence Sterne

added by anonymous
9 years ago

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

– Sydney J. Harris

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

– William S. Burroughs

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

– John Keats

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armour-proof against painful emotions; nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

– Von Humboldt

added by anonymous
12 years ago

None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.

– James Goldsmith

added by anonymous
13 years ago

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

– Ovid, Amorum, Book 2, 19, 3

added by anonymous
13 years ago

You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise.

– Socrates, Phaedrus, sct. 275

added by anonymous
13 years ago

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.

– Josiah Quincy