Contracts Quotes

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts."

A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.

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.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?

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.

Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.

What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

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.

The Disney deal created some wrinkles. I'm under contract. But I'm on standby.

Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.

The bigger the contract, the bigger the responsibility.

I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.

I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.

If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade?

If it's not a contract I want then I won't sign it. That's not a threat.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

It is of great importance that the laws by which the contracts of so numerous and so useful a body of men as the sailors are supposed to be guided, should not be overturned.

As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

I'm the Chairman Emeritus, and according to my contract I am supposed to devote 10% of my time to working for Marvel... and the rest of my time, I can do anything that I wish.

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.

For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.

She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how to read.

The labels can't do anything for a band anymore - they're stuck and they have no money and they're just holding onto contracts that have existed from a time where there were resources.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

Things work once you have property, trade and contract in place.

Most of us are now free to walk away from our marital commitments more easily than from any other contract in our lives.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.

You create your own reality

A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.

It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

The only chains you should wear in life are the chains of commitment.

We have soul contracts with every person in our lives to live in the vibration of truth.

Marriage is a financial contract I have enough contracts already.