Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Allen

The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

Dave Barry

Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tenative agreements ...

David Talbot

EFR entered into an agreement to sell some noncore assets for $2.05M.

David Suzuki

Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

Cathy Freeman

I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.

Caspar Weinberger

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

Anita Plessis

The powerful prayers of the righteous which moves mountains are determined by the power of agreement and not whether we're in the same place!

Trey Davis

The possibility of a settlement with Arthur Andersen presented many complicated and interconnected issues that required the agreement of numerous parties. Despite our extensive efforts, in the end these simply could not be worked out. Without their resolution, any settlement would have worked to the detriment of the class.

Roger Valdez

When you think of all the thousands of places in King County, to have two that are not in compliance is pretty remarkable. We see this as working really, really well.

Mike Gardner

We're formulating plans to comply with the order. That's our primary objective, to make sure we are in compliance with all of the laws of the commonwealth.

John Ferguson

Major shippers expect C-TPAT compliance from their carriers.

Steve Bernard

We have probably the strictest standards on earth in terms of compliance with anti-money-laundering measures.

Bradford Smith

Today we are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table so we can put technical compliance issues to rest.

Patrick Cooney

We are concerned about being in compliance with federal law.

E. B. White

We are continuing to work with the airport, and our hope is they will come into full compliance with our regulations.

William Neukom

We are confident that the court will find we are in compliance with the consent decree.

Dai Junliang

Though some local governments have published their own regional administrative maps before, quite a number of regional borderlines are vague and the place names are not in compliance with government standards.

Charles Dickens

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Charles Caleb Colton

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Charles Caleb Colton

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Charles Dickens

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

Charles Dickens

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Charles Dickens

The law is an ass, an idiot.

Bruce Douglas

The rates as obscene as they may sound are, in relation to the risk, nothing.

Bill Rosendahl

The word 'vagina' is not an obscene word and we're not in a position to question the First Amendment.

Lamar Whitmer

I just think it's obscene to scare the public with public safety cuts. They need to prioritize the budget.

Roland Barthes

Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.

Elizabeth Jagger

I've been asked to pose for Playboy.

Anna Benson

I think if he was traded because of any potential talks with Playboy or anything like this, then that's a dirty, nasty, rotten trick. That's really a freedom-of-speech infringement on me. He's my husband. I'm his wife. He's not responsible for what I do and I'm not responsible for what he does. I have my own career, and it should be separated.

Jessica Hahn

Michael Jackson asked me to sign a Playboy. I was more than happy to.

Christie Hefner

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

Errol Flynn

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

LeRoy Neiman

But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.

Rebecca Loos

I am seriously considering it.

Chris Carter

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

Chris Bosh

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Carl Lewis

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

Ben Broussard

We've already got a ton of pressure going out there. We can't start worrying about that we have to win this and we have to win that. We just had to go out there and try to get a run.

Greg Hill

We started putting pressure on them and rotating the ball.

Richard Hastings

Where there is pressure there is change, universally.

David Remnick

Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.

Benicio Del Toro

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

Derek Hough

Pressure doesn't exist. We create it for ourselves.