Contracts Quotes

595 quotes by 496 authors

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
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large.… — Daniel Goleman
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and… — Stephen King
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
Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar.… — Jodi Picoult
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
We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your… — Richelle Mead
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
Time expands and contracts. When it expands, itâ€™s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesnâ€™t… — Banana Yoshimoto
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
Another last-minute, good-deed job,â€ Royce grumbled as he stuffed supplies into his saddlebag. â€œTrue,â€ Hadrian said, slinging his sword belt over his shoulder, â€œbut this… — Michael J. Sullivan

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