Contract Quotes

526 quotes by 450 authors

Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a… — Milan Kundera
Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly… — Ian Mcewan
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… — Witold Gombrowicz
In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract. — Jeffery Deaver
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? — Robert Hughes
When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily. — James Lee Burke
Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you… — Jesse Ball
I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something… — Suzanne Collins
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which… — Nick Flynn
Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was… — Douglas Adams
It's a long shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on… — Suzanne Collins
ÊºThe contractÊ¹s null and void, by the way.Êº — Richelle Mead
The next week she withheld my paycheck until I signed a document (drafted by David) in which I promised not to marry Connor. Ever. I… — Lisa Lutz
He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able… — Cassandra Clare
How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your… — Jack Kerouac
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in… — Jane Austen
Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract. If… — Jodi Picoult
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that… — John Green
And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contractâ€”the Constitutionâ€”made eighty years ago, by men who are now all… — Lysander Spooner
Lena made a face. She almost never wore makeup; she didn't have to. "You know, it's not like we all sign a contract with Maybelline… — Kami Garcia

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