Contracts Quotes
595 quotes by 496 authors
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As government expands, liberty contracts.
— Ronald Reagan
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my…
— Haruki Murakami
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Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in…
— Jeanette Winterson
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It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to…
— Sloane Crosley
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I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that…
— Ronald Reagan
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Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the…
— Jodi Picoult
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On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support…
— Jodi Picoult
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The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western…
— Carlos Fuentes
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I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while." It was my turn to be quiet.…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could figure out how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through…
— Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
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The first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the first part of the party of the…
— Groucho Marx
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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
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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
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To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their…
— Milan Kundera
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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
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Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.
— Haruki Murakami
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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
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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
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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
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