Quotes About Agreements

Trade deal negotiations are highly complicated and take a long time.

In fact, what are called international "free trade agreements" are not free trade at all. The trade system was reconstructed with a very explicit design of putting working people in competition with one another all over the world.

siquiera son acuerdos comerciales, sino, básicamente, acuerdos de derechos de inversores.

Niemand kennt die komplizierten Abkommen, die zwei Leute miteinander aushandeln, um länger als die ersten zehn Minuten verheiratet zu bleiben.

The Devil is by no means the worst that there is; I would rather have dealings with him than with many a human being. He honours his agreements much more promptly than many a swindler on Earth. To be true, when payment is due he comes on the dot; just as twelve strikes, fetches his soul and goes off home to Hell like a good Devil. He's just a businessman as is right and proper. —-J.N. NESTROY, Hollenangst

Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The parties concerned met on the great occasion of the proposal. If this were refused, a state of war was declared.

We have all unknowingly entered into agreements or soul contracts in the spirit world which direct our behavior in the present moment.

We say keeping agreements is a win-win proposition. And this, of course, is not new. For ages people have talked about the importance of keeping commitments and whether or not people are "as good as their word." How committed are we to sticking with it, to making it happen? This has to do with integrity, and with our ability to build solid relationships.

Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal.

Regarding the visa-free regime, it has undoubtedly become a problem for the European Union, above all in terms of its capacity to reach agreements.

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

Big government, global environmentalism cannot work unless everyone pitches in. With China, Russia, India and a number of other countries constantly cheating the rules of international climate agreements, it makes staying in them an expensive - yet fruitless - cause.

Covenants, without the sword, are but words and of no strength to secure a man at all.

Marriages were more fragile and complicated than she had ever imagined. Trouble came in quiet, unexpected ways. Things had to be said over and over again, all existing agreements renewed and clarified.

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

The world you live in is shored up by a collective of agreements. Is that something you think about? The hope is that the truth of the world somehow lies in the common experience of it. Of course the history of science and mathematics and even philosophy is a good bit at odds with this notion. Innovation and discovery by definition war against the common understanding. One should be wary.

To me, party platforms are contracts with the people.

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

In a country rich enough to provide its inhabitants with very decent lives, the EU deals were seen as some sort of lifebuoy to grab on to. By linking their fate to the West, many thought that the gradual implementation of the agreements would create the thing that had been missing in their lives—a state of law.