Quotes of: Contraction Keyword

The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.

The Address Of Happiness

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

Pietro Mascagni

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.

Shania Twain

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

Robert Wagner

The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees.

Stephen Colbert

I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.

Regina Spektor

From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

Jim Doyle

Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.

Karen Mills

The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'

Marianne Williamson

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

Bobby McFerrin

My dad used to sell a type of commodity contract. It was so complicated, he was certain his sales people didn't understand what they were selling.

Nicholas Jarecki

No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.

Al D'Amato

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

Bob Riley

It's no secret I was willing to commit to Minnesota for five years. I'm very happy with my contract. I'd love to be in Minnesota. But like anybody else, I want to win.

Kevin Love

Africa and indeed Nigeria has always been a paradox, an inexplicable contraction of a blessed land with a poor masses

Fela Durotoye

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

Chuck Hagel

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Jack Henry Abbott

I have a fun clause in my contract. If I'm not having fun, I can leave.

James Burrows

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

Diane Sawyer

The only man I’ve ever been attracted to, and he comes with a bloody contract, a flogger, and a whole world of issues.

E.L. James