Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man! — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable." — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face? — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful. — Duc De La Rochefoucals Copy Share Image
Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Death had touched her, hurt her, and left her to deal with its disagreeable aftermath.” — Zoe Forward Copy Share Image
It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
