A Quote by Mary Kingsley

It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.

Mary Kingsley

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Mary Kingsley
British - Writer
October 13, 1862 - June 3, 1900

There isn't any reason to dislike people with whom you disagree. I have lots of friends who don't agree with me.

Bill O'Reilly

While Jews and Christians both agree on many religious issues, we disagree, and believe each other profoundly wrong, about others.

Meir Soloveichik

One is to get out of our echo chambers and sort of follow up people on Twitter and Facebook who do not agree with you. Make sure that you have friends disagree with you profoundly because if you have a friend who voted for somebody else.

Tucker Carlson

I try to love my neighbor as myself but I'm not trying to be a people pleaser. Sometimes that's hard, because my human nature is to want people to be happy with me. But sometimes I feel my convictions are so great that it would be compromising the truth if I didn't do that. So sometimes it's a struggle to say, "This is what I think; this is what I believe, and if you don't agree with me, oh well." The hardest thing for people to accept is the gay-affirming issue. It's hard for people to agree to disagree on that one.

Jay Bakker

Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people.

John Major

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

Marilyn Manson

Do you know people on the Right who are tolerant of people who are for gay marriage and are pro-choice? I actually do, plenty of them. When there is a disagreement, I see way more people on the Right... more often willing to agree to disagree rather than to de-friend or to smear.

Dave Rubin

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

There's so many ways in which Canada and America are inextricably connected politically, economically, socially. There's no stepping away. But at the same time, we don't have a say. Canada is a different country. Sometimes I think of it as Finland in the Soviet era. We're totally free, but we're totally free to agree, basically. If we disagree too heartily or over too sensitive an issue, then we pay a price for that.

Bruce Cockburn

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

I think it is important for me to speak out on social issues. Sometimes people will agree with me. Sometimes people will disagree with me. I don't take that personally.

Charles Barkley

I don't have a strategy. I am my own person. So if people disagree with the opinion of my father and want to dislike me because I'm his daughter, then I'm probably not going to be able to discourage them from that.

Ivanka Trump

You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction.

Pharrell Williams

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

Bill James

He held to the idea that the Jewish people, so often victims of injustice and persecution, should have a state where they could be independent and free. Think good or ill of Arik Sharon, agree or disagree with him, but that calling - a noble one - was plain and unalloyed.