Quotes About Contract

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.

Because marriage was the only way you could figure out to bring "foreverness," or eternality, into your experience of love. It was the only way a female could guarantee her support and survival, and the only way a male could guarantee the constant availability of sex, and companionship. So a social convention was created. A bargain was struck. You give me this and I'll give you that. In this it was very much like a business. A contract was made. And

My problem is with supervisors who bullshit me and expect loyalty in return. The essence of loyalty is reciprocity. If you're loyal to me, I'll be loyal to you. Bullshit me, and I'll bullshit you. That's the contract.

Well, I thought, someone has to get screwed. That's the art of the deal.

Although the court recognizes his right to insist on his bond - to claim his pound of flesh - the law also prohibits him from shedding Antonio's blood.

the medieval contract known as the census, which allowed one party to buy a stream of annual payments from another.

Debts were transferable, hence 'pay the bearer' rather than a named creditor.

Imagine a World Without Writing What would it mean if nothing were written, if the pronouncement 'I give you my word' were sufficient as a contract, and if laws and liabilities were not codified as letters and words on a page? @poetswritersinc by Nicholas Delbanco

Guilt could be as simple as that. There didn't have to be anything maudlin or self-pitying about it. It was a fact and you lived with the consequences, a kind of contract under which your actions led to inevitable obligations.

If you are a single product company, then you are a contract company. But if you enter the retail market, then you have to be a multiple product company.

We'll pass over that one . . . Anyway, I happen to know from a reliable source that those present at the signing of the contract," and here his voice fell to a whisper, "were Avvocato Riccardi and General Negri di Saint Front." "And who the hell are they?

I've been under contract since I was 18 and it's all I've ever known. To me, I'm NOT different from anyone else other than the way I make a living.

It's not that Wicked treated me bad. It was nothing like that at all. Back then Wicked didn't do contracts and Vivid offered me one. There was no way to know what my future was going to be like with Wicked when they weren't willing to commit to anything and Vivid was. And well, Vivid is the class act of porn. No other company commits the money and effort that Vivid does to further a star's career. When the opportunity arose for me to get a contract with Vivid, how could I say no?

She knew of a scribe dressed all in white who penned letters to the dead (and delivered them), and an old storyteller who sold ideas to writers at the price of a year of their lives. Karou had seen tourists laugh as they signed his contract, not believing it for a second, but she believed it. Hadn't she seen stranger things?

Obviously, the eating or drinking of Fairy foodstuffs constitutes a binding contract to return at least once a year in accordance with seasonal myth cycles." September started. "What? What does that mean?" The Green Wind stroked his neatly pointed beard. "It means: Eat anything you like, precious cherry child!

alive and warm and real and in gross violation of her HOA contract.

A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit.

He was also terrified that he hadn't properly read the small print of their relationship. He forgot that true friendship is a contract in which there can be no small print.

but it was humanly good to be touched too, to be alone with someone at the secret feast that went all the way back to Adam and Eve. You looked at each other and felt just how old the contract was, the warm-faced commitment to the adventure, the stepping together out of the light into the rewarding darkness.

In the Westerville, Ohio, school district, for example, a union contract provision stipulated that a coin flip would be used to determine seniority if two teachers were hired on the same day. One might be a great teacher, the other awful; it makes no difference. That is how much importance unions place on teacher quality.

The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.

No society can smash the social contract and be exempt from the consequences, and the consequences are chaos for everybody in society.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.