Contracts famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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reading is at the beginning of the social contract
-- Alberto Manguel -
The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.
-- Alex Berenson -
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I've got two contracts in my life: One with my wife and the other to protect Andy Dalton.
-- Andrew Whitworth -
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
-- Angela Carter -
The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.
-- Bertrand Russell -
But if it comes down to next year, I'll be picketing outside of Halas Hall for a new deal, a new contract, because I'm not going anyplace.
-- Brandon Marshall -
Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will..
-- Bruce C. Hafen -
Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.
-- Chuck Hagel -
I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio
-- Dalton Trumbo -
If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
-- David O. Selznick -
I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.
-- David Selby -
Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.
-- Diane Cilento -
For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.
-- Diane Lane -
And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.
-- Don Shula -
One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.
-- E. J. Hughes -
Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.
-- E. L. James -
My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right...
-- Gary Bettman -
My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.
-- Gerard Butler -
Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.
-- Glenn Danzig -
I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.
-- Irving Paul Lazar -
Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.
-- Jay Mohr -
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.
-- John Lydon -
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
-- John Marshall -
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
-- Joseph Barber Lightfoot -
I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.
-- Juice Newton -
No one in their right mind would turn down the contracts I've been offered.
-- Kevin Pietersen -
In the technical realm, we repeatedly enter into a series of social contracts, the terms of which are revealed only after the signing.
-- Langdon Winner -
Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
-- Les Baxter -
To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.
-- Marion Woodman -
It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.
-- Mary J. Blige -
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
-- Nelson Mandela -
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
-- Patrick Stewart -
One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.
-- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones -
I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.
-- Peter Steele -
Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.
-- Peter Steele -
This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.
-- Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed -
I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here.
-- Rio Ferdinand -
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.
-- Robert Wagner -
When I saw the others like Michael, Ross Brawn and Todt renewing their contracts, I always said that I was happy to do so.
-- Rubens Barrichello -
It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.
-- Sherry Stringfield -
Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.
-- Sophie Ellis Bextor -
I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.
-- Sugar Ray Leonard -
When Im not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that Im not allowed to do that.
-- Taylor Phinney -
Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.
-- Terry Southern -
I will sign every contract Arsenal put in front of me without reading it.
-- Tony Adams -
I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
-- Ursula Andress -
I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.
-- Vladimir Zhirinovsky -
I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.
-- Vladimir Zhirinovsky -
It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.
-- Warren Buffett -
Most of us are now free to walk away from our marital commitments more easily than from any other contract in our lives.
-- William J Doherty -
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
-- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne -
I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.
-- Alexa Ray Joel -
As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.
-- Babatunde Fashola -
I've been under contract since I was 18 and it's all I've ever known. To me, I'm NOT different from anyone else other than the way I make a living.
-- Chasey Lain -
Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.
-- Conan O'Brien -
The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.
-- David Paul -
If they ask you to sign a contract up front or for money, that's usually a bad sign.
-- Dia Frampton -
I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.
-- Doseone -
There are so few barriers to working with artists because the contract is brief and straightforward, it allows us to just move instantly.
-- Doug Walters -
I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.
-- Jennifer O'Neill -
Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.
-- Maureen O'Hara -
If I signed a contract that meant someone else wouldn't be playing.
-- Mike Vallely -
The crazy thing is that I really wasn't under any pressure. My contract wasn't going to expire until the end of 2008, and everyone was satisfied with me. But I wasn't. I always wanted to improve.
-- Patrik Sinkewitz -
The Disney deal created some wrinkles. I'm under contract. But I'm on standby.
-- Paul S. Kemp -
Things work once you have property, trade and contract in place.
-- William G. Kline -
They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.
-- Abe Lemons -
The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.
-- Anthea Turner -
The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
-- Beatrice Lillie -
The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.
-- Ely Culbertson -
I spend more time with Gucci [Mane] or Birdman than 300, but all this is just family. Who cares [about] contracts?
-- Young Thug -
I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.
-- Marchette Chute
