Quotes About Agreements

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.

Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

Sometimes your pledges become your problems.

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

Some Western states have collaborative water agreements with Indian tribes - Washington state, for instance, monitors a number of its rivers to protect spawning salmon, which are promised to native peoples under 19th-century treaties.

You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.

TPP replicates similar language from past trade agreements that has allowed foreign corporations the right to challenge U.S. federal, state, and local laws outside of American courts. These tribunals will not meet our high standard of transparency and due process, and they will rely on weak impartiality rules for selecting judges.

As you know, in the latter part of 2008 and early 2009, the Federal Reserve took extraordinary steps to provide liquidity and support credit market functioning, including the establishment of a number of emergency lending facilities and the creation or extension of currency swap agreements with 14 central banks around the world.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

Our principal claim here is that patients and doctors should be free to make their own agreements about that right. If patients want to waive the right to sue, they should be allowed to do exactly that. This increase in freedom is likely to help doctors and patients alike, and to make a valuable, even if modest, contribution to the health care problem.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

Stories aren't a written form of requirements; telling stories through collaboration with words and pictures is a mechanism that builds shared understanding. Stories aren't the requirements; they're discussions about solving problems for our organization, our customers, and our users that lead to agreements on what to build. Your job isn't to build more software faster: it's to maximize the outcome and impact you get from what you choose to build.

We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.

We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

Requiring forced arbitration agreements limits consumer rights and protections.