Unspoken Agreement Quotes

Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

George Bush looked into Putin's eyes and saw his soul in the first meeting he had in Slovenia. And then in the next meeting, he realized his soul was very dark.

We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

There are some things I don’t tell the President. It’s better if he doesn’t know.

The people have nominated you without any pledges or engagements of any sort … and they want you to do nothing at present but allow yourself to be elected…. Make no speeches, write no letters as a candidate, enter into no pledges, make no promises.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

Most "off the record" never continues to be "off the record.

Pretending is the grease of non-relationships. Pretending is how you and I get through the day without ever having to know each other. When I walk in the room, you say to me, 'How are you?' Well, you don't want to know. And, frankly, I don't want to tell you. So I just say, 'Fine,' and you go, 'Fine.' And off we go.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement whereby we are given leave to bend the rules of the strictest morality, provided we do so quietly and discreetly. Hypocrisy is the grease that keeps society functioning in an agreeable way, by allowing for human fallibility and reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable human needs for order and pleasure.

Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone.

Me and Clams have always kept it organic with the way we work. It's just always the right time. It's never no pressure. He always comes through if I need him. I always come through if he needs me, and we always meet at that right time.

What is done tacitly must be held as if it had been done expressly .

A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

When my colleagues went to endorse Rob Garagiola, nobody asked me for my opinion about that. And I didn't ask anybody else. I did what I thought was the right thing to do, and I made a decision, just like they did.

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

See and keep silent.

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.