Top 100 Contract Quotes

#1. I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a kiss-and-tell book, which I specifically put in the contract. Just a book about my work and what I did.

Linda Ronstadt

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#2. When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

Tammy Bruce

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#3. Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

Tom Selleck

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#4. The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they like it until someone signs a bigger one and now they don't like it. I don't like that. I don't begrudge anyone money, but it disrupts the football team.

Joe Greene

Contract Quotes #1388360
#5. Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

Contract Quotes #1386116
#6. If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.

Shaquille O'Neal

Contract Quotes #1385333
#7. The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

Henry James Sumner Maine

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#8. Turning into a vampire is like signing a supernatural contract and like any contract, there are clauses.
And there is the fine print.

Cyma Rizwaan Khan

Contract Quotes #1374451
#9. I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.

Juice Newton

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#10. There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.

Charles Dickens

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#11. Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

Contract Quotes #1372936
#12. We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.

Cal Thomas

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#13. Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

Chuck Hagel

Contract Quotes #1369117
#14. Do you think I would enter into a contract with that mob? Absolutely no chance. I would not sell them a virus. That is a 'No' by the way. There is no agreement whatsoever between the clubs.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Contract Quotes #1368625
#15. If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

Plutarch

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#16. Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Confucius

Contract Quotes #1367148
#17. There's this funny thing with pilots that you have to sign the contract to do the whole job before you're even offered the part. And they make about a million pilots a year, but hardly any of them get turned into series.

Eve Best

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#18. I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less.

Lillie Langtry

Contract Quotes #1359157
#19. If you're looking for a way to break the contract, I do not know. You'd need a demon or a barrister to answer that.

T. Kingfisher

Contract Quotes #1356103
#20. I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject.

Mike Nichols

Contract Quotes #1354358
#21. You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.

Michael Weatherly

Contract Quotes #1349229
#22. We regard an action of Contract as an action to prevent or compensate for a breach of a promise; an action of Tort as an action to to punish or compensate for a wrong, such as assault or defamation, which has not any necessary connection with a promise.

Edward Jenks

Contract Quotes #1339491
#23. A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.

David Augsburger

Contract Quotes #1338905
#24. It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.

Edward Jenks

Contract Quotes #1337942
#25. I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

Alexa Ray Joel

Contract Quotes #1337086
#26. I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Contract Quotes #1336373
#27. Never before had I been offered a contract and advance before a word had been written ... I went home and began writing 'Julie of the Wolves.'

Jean Craighead George

Contract Quotes #1334600
#28. But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship.

Dale Earnhardt

Contract Quotes #1329422
#29. Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company - evil or not - is going to do it for you.

Sarah Lacy

Contract Quotes #1325634
#30. A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily

Sunday Adelaja

Contract Quotes #1324273
#31. I've been under contract since I was 18 and it's all I've ever known. To me, I'm NOT different from anyone else other than the way I make a living.

Chasey Lain

Contract Quotes #1321235
#32. First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

Anthony Michael Hall

Contract Quotes #1318423
#33. Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

Diane Ackerman

Contract Quotes #1316697
#34. The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'

Fernando Torres

Contract Quotes #1316524
#35. Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.

Jeremy Taylor

Contract Quotes #1309950
#36. America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity ... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

George Kaiser

Contract Quotes #1308912
#37. I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.

Bill Moyers

Contract Quotes #1308760
#38. It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about. And yet I did that most every year. I've done a lot of failed pilots.

Lizzy Caplan

Contract Quotes #1305240
#39. And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Thomas Keneally

Contract Quotes #1299221
#40. If your client has a problem with ethics, a signed contract may not be enough to protect you from expensive litigation.

Paul E. Casey

Contract Quotes #1296780
#41. Marriage is a contract. Love is non-negotiable.

Jessica Zafra

Contract Quotes #1293876
#42. It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.

Glen Duncan

Contract Quotes #1292010
#43. The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

Oliver E. Williamson

Contract Quotes #1289844
#44. There's no doubt that when the Republican Party took over in 1994, the 'Contract with America' was an opportunity to implement some things - like welfare reform and some of the other initiatives. Then, it kind of lost its steam.

Marco Rubio

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#45. Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

Linda Fiorentino

Contract Quotes #1283412
#46. An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

Tom Coburn

Contract Quotes #1280230
#47. If the present and past moods of these people were bad, they were more likely to contract the cold. So,

Robert E. Thayer

Contract Quotes #1279029
#48. Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

Barbara Kingsolver

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#49. Love is not of value when this superficial contract must be drawn up, representing the two worlds that enclose us.

Coco J. Ginger

Contract Quotes #1278779
#50. The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.

Louis D. Brandeis

Contract Quotes #1278574
#51. Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

Gary Numan

Contract Quotes #1277766
#52. When I was young, I was offered my first recording contract in 1971 and was offered quite a bit of money if I would change my character and be a '70s version of Cher.

Patti Smith

Contract Quotes #1275870
#53. Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Walter Winchell

Contract Quotes #1269222
#54. The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.

Chuck Wendig

Contract Quotes #1269170
#55. I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.

Kimbra

Contract Quotes #1267862
#56. Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?

Ted Rall

Contract Quotes #1267237
#57. When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.

Bruce Lee

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#58. The secret of domestic happiness is to let God, the party of the third part in the marriage contract, have His rightful place in the home. Make peace with Him and then you can be a real peacemaker in the home.

Billy Graham

Contract Quotes #1265883
#59. For my last 15 years at United I had a rolling one-year contract and an agreement that if I was sacked I would be entitled to two years' salary, even if I turned up and started managing Manchester City the day after I was fired. That was more than enough for me.

Alex Ferguson

Contract Quotes #1265337
#60. When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.

Ben E. King

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#61. 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.

Roone Arledge

Contract Quotes #1263660
#62. Dr. Barazon had maintained that Elfriede would not have needed to provide an Aryan cover for the real author of Ali and Nino, because the book contract was signed in April 1937, almost a full year before the Nazi Anschluss of Austria.

Tom Reiss

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#63. In his Social Contract, Rousseau noted the obvious, that Law is a very good thing for men with property and a very bad thing for men without property.

Saul D. Alinsky

Contract Quotes #1260298
#64. Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Contract Quotes #1257560
#65. Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?

Charles Stross

Contract Quotes #1250843
#66. 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.

Mary J. Blige

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#67. You have a sacred contract with the Universe, and no one can fulfill it except you.

Gary Zukav

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#68. A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

Dalton Trumbo

Contract Quotes #1246291
#69. The family stayed put for a few years, largely due to issues involving a contract with a demon, an open dimensional rift, and preschool,

Seanan McGuire

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#70. Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

Jeff Bridges

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#71. If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.

Chris Evans

Contract Quotes #1243199
#72. I'm sure in the past I've said marriage is stupid. Marriage makes someone sign a contract promising something they really can't deliver. I'm sure I will again say marriage is dumb. But I can also imagine why it could be lovely. There's something beautiful about truly being there for another person.

Amy Schumer

Contract Quotes #1242538
#73. With your breath, issue words of a new contract. Become the law creator of a new prosperity.

Bryant McGill

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#74. 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 when we turn thirteen.

Kami Garcia

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#75. People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

Walt Disney

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#76. The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.

Richard Gough

Contract Quotes #1226868
#77. In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week.

Jesse Ventura

Contract Quotes #1225420
#78. Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.

Robert A. Heinlein

Contract Quotes #1225113
#79. I acknowledge to myself that sometimes I am a snail. I move myself by gliding. I contract my muscles and produce a slime of tears. Sometimes you see the tears and sometimes you don't. It is my tears that allow me to glide.

Chinelo Okparanta

Contract Quotes #1220708
#80. Over the years, there have been challenges about who can use our name. It's quite simple: A majority of people left in the band at a certain time own the name. It's not like I'm the guy who has the name under my own contract.

Chris Squire

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#81. The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

Ely Culbertson

Contract Quotes #1218555
#82. Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.

John Selden

Contract Quotes #1218440
#83. year, they made a switch to chemicals: a move that nobody could understand till they won a billion-dollar government contract. Within three months." "Such a huge contract

V.S. Vashist

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#84. My insides contract- bad. "who are you?" I ask right out loud. And he says what I've been afraid of since I killed Lester's father. Haven't you guessed? I'm you. The real you.

Bonnie Shimko

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#85. I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.

Grant Bowler

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#86. People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.

Frances Burney

Contract Quotes #1209177
#87. You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.

Don King

Contract Quotes #1204747
#88. His grief at your leaving is also his fear of losing the power he has had for lifetimes. Those days are over for him, and he is in turmoil. But if you are to help him on his soul's quest, you will leave him. It is your job
your sacred contract
to free him, and to free yourself.

Elizabeth Lesser

Contract Quotes #1202915
#89. Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

Marc Andreessen

Contract Quotes #1201294
#90. While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other ... There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married.

Muriel Fox

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#91. We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#92. One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

Herbie Mann

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#93. I tried to get through to my brother, Mike, on the Moon, but the phone company wouldn't let me place the call until I had signed a contract and posted a $25,000 bond.

Joe Haldeman

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#94. Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

E.L. James

Contract Quotes #1186571
#95. Show me the contract.

Buffy Andrews

Contract Quotes #1182036
#96. On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family.

Kurt Overhardt

Contract Quotes #1179613
#97. Joey told me nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was, that things expand and contract- like breathing, but you could never fill your lungs up with the same air twice.

Andrew Smith

Contract Quotes #1175079
#98. In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

Sharon Gless

Contract Quotes #1174039
#99. I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

Gene Tierney

Contract Quotes #1014868
#100. My hope is next year Terry and I can work out a contract. I have no problem with the Minnesota Twins.

Scott Boras

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