Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
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.
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.
You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.
The bigger the contract, the bigger the responsibility.
I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.
If it's not a contract I want then I won't sign it. That's not a threat.
Food is a part of our contract with life.
This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.
He felt his heart, which no longer beat, contract, and he wondered if there was anything in the world as painful as not being able to protect the people you loved.
What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.
I think I signed some contract, early on in my career, that I will only kiss Steve Carell when I do a movie.
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
There are only two ways for me to leave Chelsea. One way is in June 2010 when I finish my contract and if the club doesn’t give me a new one. It is the end of my contract and I am out. The second way is for Chelsea to sack me. The way of the manager leaving the club by deciding to walk away, no chance! I will never do this to Chelsea supporters.
I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.
The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.
For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.