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Quotes About Contracted

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.
~ Evan Davis
an Anglican college in New York, which, he warned, would become "a contracted receptacle of bigotry
~ Ron Chernow
Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours.
~ Alexandra Robbins
Still, I didn't like the implication that I had contracted an incurable beyond the pale.
~ Anna Burns
Here the girls danced together in the winter evenings to the music of the wireless and tender possessive friendships were contracted and repudiated;
~ Evelyn Waugh
Against Marisa's vehement protests I flew back to Las Vegas to confront the person or persons who'd contracted me to kill their daughter.
~ Armand Rosamilia
And one bite, and I'm their slave?" – Sundown "Exactly." – Sin "And who thought this would be a good idea?" – Sundown "Don't get me started. There are idiots in all pantheons. Some days, I think the Sumerians had more than their fair share, and I only hope the idiocy is congenital and not something contracted later in life. Otherwise, I'm even more screwed." – Sin
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Not even on the most distorted and contracted theory of good which ever was framed by religious or philosophical fanaticism, can the government of Nature be made to resemble the work of a being at once good and omnipotent.
~ John Stuart Mill
Mr. Young observed that life was a sad, sad thing — "because the joy of every new marriage a man contracted was so apt to be blighted by the inopportune funeral of a less recent bride.
~ Mark Twain
His malaise couldn't snuff his imagination and love of his work, however. He refocused his efforts on commercially viable machinery and—in 1906, on his 50th birthday—presented a 200-horsepower bladeless turbine engine to the world. He was also contracted by the Waltham Watch Company to build the world's first and only air-friction speedometer,
~ Sean Patrick
We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.
~ Evan Davis
Reports have indicated that several border agents have contracted diseases through contact with the unaccompanied minors.
~ Phil Gingrey
If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.
~ Charles E. Merrill
Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Hired guns were such babies.
~ Gena Showalter
We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting.
~ Roger Waters
In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.
~ George Bancroft
Early on, I had contracted that dread affliction of oldest or only children -- I lived for the absolute approval of my parents.
~ Pat Conroy
She is hyper-specialized, a freelancer, someone contracted to do a very specific job. She has seldom had a salary. She is entirely a creature of fees, adamantly short-term, no managerial skills whatever
~ William Gibson
Misclassification is a serious problem in construction as well as other industries, and it is exacerbated by increasingly fissured employment structures where work is contracted and subcontracted away from the core company.
~ Tom Perez
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
~ William Shakespeare
The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.
~ T. Harv Eker
I said, "I've reported to my contracted supervisor." (I know, I know, I could have said no, I didn't kill anybody. I could have said that even SecUnits under company protocol use minimum force necessary
~ Martha Wells