Quotes About Contract

The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

I'm signed to Atlantic through 300 Entertainment [Lyor Cohen's label]. That is my only contractual relationship.

Is it so nominated in the bond?

Let him look to his bond.

Since I didn't have a contract I could show him to make him stay, if Tenzo suddenly vanished I would be left with nothing. Tenzo had given me no words, not "lover," or even "relationship.

when selling your soul it's important to remember that there is no buy back clause in the contract

This was the flaw in making a bargain with yourself. There is no one else there to agree to the terms.

Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.

Because this is the other side of the contract with creativity: If inspiration is allowed to unexpectedly enter you, it is also allowed to unexpectedly exit you.

If there is one word, by the way, that triggers all the inherent terrors I have ever felt about the institution of marriage, it is coverture. This is exactly what the dancer Isadora Duncan was talking about when she wrote that "any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it deserves all the consequences.

thirty two years old, no-fixed-hours casual contract junior lecturer at a university in London, living the dream, her mother says, and she is, if the dream means having no job security and almost everything being too expensive to do and that you're still in the same rented flat you had when you were a student over a decade ago …

We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.

J'ai la foi. Cette foi n'a pas d'objet. Cela ne signifie pas que je ne crois en rien. Croire n'est beau qu'au sens absolu du verbe. La foi est une attitude et non un contrat. Il n'y a pas de cases à cocher.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

Get a lawyer to look at your contract or beware. Because no company - evil or not - is going to do it for you.

I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity Fair,' and then went back to 'Newsweek'. I came back to 'SI' as a contract writer.

It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.

I don't want to be one of those players that gets the contract and the main focus is on him.

We didn't do Brexit. We didn't get money for it. We didn't do work for it. We didn't sign a contract.

If you don't make weight, you're breaching a contract, straight up.

In show business, there's a lot of time when you're under contract, and you're not allowed to talk about things.