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Quotes About Contract

Less than two weeks after the selection of the architects had been made, the directors awarded the building contract to Starrett Bros. & Eken.
~ John Tauranac
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
~ Marcel Proust
So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.
~ Maria Menounos
Moreover, in private prisons people of color are even more overrepresented than they are in federal and state prison populations. This is because private prisons contract to avoid housing the more costly elderly prisoner. They prefer the younger bodies, and so they hold more of the youth of color, the bulk of these coming in as targets of the recent "war on drugs.
~ Unknown
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
~ Groucho Marx
A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps.
~ Robert Benchley
Wafah Dufour bin Laden, niece of Osama bin Laden has signed a contract to star in a reality show... called Skating with the Nieces of Terrorists.
~ Tina Fey
I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here.
~ Rio Ferdinand
The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
~ Robert Benchley
Austin introduced a plan designed by Peter Ellis Bean, and obtained the support of the Bexar Ayuntamiento. Bean had found a loophole that allowed immigrants to continue introducing slaves into Texas. Enslaved people would be brought to Texas as indentured servants. First, while slave owners were residing in US territory, they would take their slaves to a notary public, emancipate them, and afterward require them to sign a contract indenturing themselves and their children for life.
~ Unknown
No hugging," I warned her. It was in our contract.
~ Martha Wells
I don't know why, because it's one of those things I'm not contractually obligated to care about.
~ Martha Wells
The full station threat assessment for murder was sitting at a baseline 7 percent. (To make it drop lower than that we'd have to be on an uninhabited planet.) (I've never been on a contract on an uninhabited planet because if I was on the planet on a contract then we'd be inhabiting it.)
~ Martha Wells
Pin-Lee leaned over me and I said, "This unit is at minimal functionality and it is recommended that you discard it." It's an automatic reaction triggered by catastrophic malfunction. Also, I really didn't want them to try to move me because it hurt bad enough the way it was. "Your contract allows—" "Shut up," Mensah snapped. "You shut the fuck up. We're not leaving you.
~ Martha Wells
She watched me search for seven minutes and forty seconds, then said, "Can I ask you a question?" I never know how to answer this. Should I go with my first impulse, which is always "no" or just give in to the inevitable? I said, "Is it contract-relevant?" Big, adolescent human sigh noise. "I just want to understand something." I gave in to the inevitable. "Yes.
~ Martha Wells
Reaction 1: oh, that's who had hacked my code. Reaction 2: flattering that they thought I was dangerous enough to pay for the contract on a Combat SecUnit. Reaction 3: I bet PortSec did not okay that and was going to be pissed off. Reaction 4: oh shit I'm going to die.
~ Martha Wells
Mensah sent me a private message through the feed: I hope you're all right. Because you need me. I don't know where that came from. All right, it came from me, but she was my client, I was a SecUnit. There was no emotional contract between us. There was no rational reason for me to sound like a whiny human baby.
~ Martha Wells
I don't know why, because it's one of those things I'm not contractually obligated to care about.
~ Martha Wells
When the company owned me and rented me out for surveys, my security protocol included datamining, which meant monitoring and recording the humans every second for the duration of the contract, which was excruciating in a lot of ways. Pretty much all the ways. (All the ways involving sex, bodily fluids, and inane conversations.)
~ Martha Wells
Can I ask you a question?" I never know how to answer this. Should I go with my first impulse, which is always "no" or just give in to the inevitable? I said, "Is it contract-relevant?
~ Martha Wells
On this contract, Dr. Ratthi jumped up and said, "I'll get the cases!" I yelled, "No!" which I'm not supposed to do; I'm always supposed to speak respectfully to the clients, even when they're about to accidentally commit suicide.
~ Martha Wells
No hugging," I warned her. It was in our contract. "Do you need emotional support? Do you want me to call someone?
~ Martha Wells
I've never been on a contract on an uninhabited planet because if I was on the planet on a contract then we'd be inhabiting it.)
~ Martha Wells
Marriage is a divine covenant not a contract. Don't confuse miscommunication with incompatible.
~ Unknown