History is an agreed-upon fiction.

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.

— Anonymous

“History is not an agreed-upon fiction but what gets made in a crowded room; what is said isn't what's heard, and what's heard isn't…

— Adam Gopnik

By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion…

— John Podhoretz

“we are all privately agreed that it is better in books”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't.

— Ridley Scott

I had always told my father that before working with him in the same frame as an actor, which I was petrified to do,…

— Shahid Kapoor

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed…

— Danny Aiello

“The audience agreed, "Amen.”

— Philip K. Dick

We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are.…

— Mahmoud Abbas

If I agreed with you wed both be wrong

— Unknow

It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations.

— John Walker Lindh

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think…

— David Herbert Donald

To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually…

— Richard Jefferies

“You." I gasped. "Me," he agreed, amused.”

— Julie Berry

Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much…

— Edmund White