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Quotes About Lease

One of the reasons his subordinated lease idea worked so well was that in the late fifties we didn't have the proliferation of franchise operations and the fierce competition for commercial fringe property that developed in the course of the next twenty years.
~ Ray Kroc
If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.
~ Al Yankovic
A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.
~ Neil Abercrombie
I have a roommate, and I signed a year lease. I screwed up! That's like I wrote a joke that didn't work, but now I have to tell it for a year.
~ Mitch Hedberg
the devil has no more cunning way of securing a long lease of life for any evil than getting Christian people and Christian Churches to give it their sanction.
~ Alexander MacLaren
Cash-strapped cities in nations from Argentina to Albania have begun to turn over their municipal water systems to Big Water, often under lease arrangements that can continue in force for decades.
~ Charles C. Mann
For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so slanted in favor of Big Oil that often permit reviews are simply waived.
~ Chellie Pingree
They decided to try to increase its flow and hired a local man, Jacob D. Angier, to do the work. On 4 July 1853, the sawmill owners signed a lease with Angier, the first oil lease known to have been executed in the United States.
~ Richard Rhodes
Stranahan kept his home in Aspen and accumulated more property. Also a fine-arts photographer, human-rights activist, philanthropist, beer brewer (the Flying Dog brands), and frustrated delinquent, he was drawn to Hunter and arranged the lease for the three-level house, a smaller cabin nearby, and a stable, and the acreage resting on top of a bluff.
~ William McKeen
We're all hoping that the remains of the Nueva Cadiz haven't been moved by the storm out of Rafe's lease sites. "If they have been," Tia says, "I'll go out at night and move them back, piece by piece.
~ Jean Ferris
Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.
~ John Buchanan Robinson
Mr. Peabody had been very hard on him as to the price of the lease.
~ Ron Chernow
DCL entered into a 99-year lease agreement with the Bahamian government in 1999, giving the cruise line the rights to develop what was then known as Gorda Cay. Renamed Castaway Cay by Disney, the island measures about 1.5 square miles and sits in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 80 miles north-northeast of Nassau, at about the same latitude as Fort Lauderdale, Florida (100 miles to the west).
~ Len Testa
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
~ Lucretius
Life is a lease and God is the landlord.
~ Sarah Strohmeyer
Congress has no business telling courts within a state that they are prohibited from considering issues involving a lease for energy development, production, and exploration that has the potential to cause irreparable environmental and economic damage to the Gulf Coast area of that state.
~ Ted Deutch
they'd chosen this rental for its proximity to the hospital and signed a six-month lease, which had turned into month-to-
~ Lisa Jackson
Success isn't owned. It's leased and rent is due every day.
~ J. J. Watt
Life is a secret lease from God and we should not allow ourselves to be bruised. Family life is our strength and success.
~ Joseph Losey
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
When we come into this life, we don't really own anything. And we own nothing when we leave. It is only a lease we have during our lifetime, and it is up to us to make the most of it.
~ Jerold Panas
We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord.
~ Arthur C. Clarke, 2010
There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.
~ Kurt Vonnegut