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Quotes About Negotiable

Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece.
~ Lucas Papademos
Legislatures not driven to desperation by the problems of public education may be able to see the threat in vouchers negotiable in sectarian schools.
~ David Souter
The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution. For judicial devotees of originalism or original intent, this should be a disarming insight, since it made the Constitution the foundation for an ever-shifting political dialogue that, like history itself, was an argument without end. Madison's original intention was to make all original intentions infinitely negotiable in the future.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
Where justice if negotiable, filthiness becomes delectable
~ Tony Osborg
Most of us assume that our feelings are static and nonnegotiable, and that if they are to be shared authentically, they must be shared "as is." In fact, our feelings are based on our perceptions, and our perceptions (as we have seen in the preceding three chapters) are negotiable.
~ Douglas Stone
Their [realists'] concern is that utopian aspirations towards a new peaceful world order will simply absolutize conflicts and make them more intractable. National interests are in some degree negotiable; rights, in principle, are not. International organizations such as the United Nations have not been conspicuously successful in bringing peace, and it is likely that the states of the world would become extremely nervous of any move to give the UN the overwhelming power needed to do this.
~ Kenneth Minogue
I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.
~ Natalie Jeremijenko
Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world - turns out to be negotiable and reversible, depending on Donald Trump's whims and the furies of his base.
~ Bret Stephens
My fees are negotiable,' said Strike, 'if I like the client.' He followed Leonora Quine into his office and closed the door behind him with a snap.
~ Robert Galbraith
law of noncontradiction, the "law of causality," and "the basic reliability of sense perception," which, they contend, "no one denies … regularly and consistently,"22 and which, for them apparently, are more non-negotiably certain at the beginning of their quest for God and truth than God himself is.
~ Robert L. Reymond
There's just something fascinating to me about watching a business interaction unfold, and the negotiation. And how everything is negotiable in life.
~ Kether Donohue
Freedom is not negotiable.
~ Andy Garcia
The first time we spoke, Mr. Ambraysas told me, 'Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
~ M. John Harrison
Success always has a price, but the reality is that the price is negotiable. If you pick the right system, the price will be a lot nearer what you're willing to pay. I
~ Scott Adams
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Forms are the temporal, changing, and negotiable practices that are based on culture and are methods that all churches are free to choose to accomplish their functions.
~ Aubrey Malphurs
Mitt Romney claims Mr. Obama has 'thrown allies like Israel under the bus,' but in fact the president has taken concrete steps to make Israel more secure - a commitment he has described as 'not negotiable.'
~ Haim Saban
I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.
~ Adam Michnik
un ser humano venido a menos, degradado, sin lealtades fijas, que ha idolatrado lo menos humano que hay en su interior, que es capaz de pensar que todo es negociable; incluso lo inalcanzable. Animalizar
~ Enrique Rojas
young woman of negotiable affection
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Dead men don't pay for baths, haircuts, meals, or beds. Dead men don't buy new clothes, or ammunition, or saddles. Dead men don't desire fancy Coffeyville boots with Texas stars laid into the shank. They don't gamble, and they don't spend money on liquor or whores. And that was why, when the Texans got to Dodge, there was really only one rule to remember. Don't kill the customers. All other ordinances were, customarily, negotiable.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
~ Barbara Jordan
Life, love, and happiness. Life, one doesn't have a choice about. Love is negotiable. Happiness—that's the tough one
~ Carolyn Brown