Contract Quotes

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. (Samuel Goldwyn)
This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. View quote
Confucius
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them. View quote
Barack Obama
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time. View quote
Bobby McFerrin
First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode. View quote
Anthony Michael Hall
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. View quote
Bob Riley
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. View quote
Linda Fiorentino
In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM. View quote
Rod Taylor
One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want. View quote
Roone Arledge
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract. (Groucho Marx)
I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. View quote
Charlie Sheen
Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life. View quote
Alain de Botton
Wafah Dufour bin Laden, niece of Osama bin Laden has signed a contract to star in a reality show...called Skating with the Nieces of Terrorists. View quote
Tina Fey
Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
It's 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. View quote
Alan Shepard
The only thing I took advantage of at Extreme Rules was an opportunity to cash in my Money in the Bank contract, which I did successfully, well within the rules. You know, Jeff knows this, you know this, the fans know this: nowhere on that contract does it say, under any circumstances, 'Do not cash in on Jeff Hardy. View quote
Phil Brooks
Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience. View quote
Jerry Goldsmith
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal. View quote
Gregory Colbert
Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity... and here I am, reborn. View quote
Witold Gombrowicz
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. (Walter Winchell)
Absolute brain size does not tell you everything - or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations. View quote
Bill Bryson
The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them. View quote
Thomas Moore
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. View quote
Walter Lippmann
One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract. View quote
Anthony Trollope