Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are having ongoing conversations right now, going back and forth discussing what might be agreeable for both parties. There is a lot of interest there, and we are just going about trying to find out how we can get Chauncey to represent our country.

We are gratified to receive the support from all the mayors, as well as from Senator Boxer and Representative Pelosi. It points up the fact that caregivers want a compromise agreement that benefits our patients. We don't understand what's wrong with Sutter Health that it would force a strike instead.

We are gratified to have a tentative agreement that benefits everyone associated with Delta Air Lines. This agreement will make Delta pilots the best paid in the industry and will provide other significant improvements.

William Taylor

We are grateful that Judge Finch agreed that Wal-Mart is bound by the terms of its retirement agreement with Tom Coughlin,

Lee Myung-bak

First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.

Victoria Osteen

Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

Barbara Ehrenreich

A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.

P. J. O'Rourke

The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.

Bliss Carman

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

David Weinberger

If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's not that we're not good at it; it's the problems cannot be solved because we're not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.

David Weinberger

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

Akira Suzuki

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

Alan Cumming

Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.

We're not excluding anyone as long as they agree diversity is a desirable goal in county government.

David Trimble

There are parts of this agreement that we are not happy with. But we have judged that we have enough here to build on.

There are Palestinians who see (Sharon) as someone who did a lot of practical harm to the Palestinian cause. And some people who feel he is the only strongman in Israel who would be able to implement any agreement and enforce it on his own people.

Eliot Spitzer

The only delay, ... is that when you are dealing with 50 states, 12 investment banks, a significant number of regulatory entities, simply getting sign-offs, drafting agreements on stray words takes a bit of time.

We sent in proposals since 2004 to the CPO to sit and negotiate for the new collective agreement, and it is going into 2006 now and no agreement has been met.

We still hope that Poland will join this agreement.

We still have to put together a revised site plan and have agreement with the residents. Really, what we want to demonstrate is that we want to work it out with the neighbors.

We still have negotiations to do. Our goal is to reach an agreement as soon as possible.

Ken Thompson

We are confident that shareholders will agree when they look at the facts, ... We believe that the SunTrust proposal simply won't work, and we are glad that the board has validated our view.

This never went to a court and it was just an agreement between both parties. They claimed to have a vested interest in the club, the operation of the club. They had used it as their home for many, many years.

Bertie Ahern

was prepared to take risks for the peace process, risks to secure agreement and risks to implement it.

We agreed to say I broke some team rules, and we parted ways.

We agreed to reduce our proposal and make improvements to the overall package recognizing the likelihood the pilot pension plan would be terminated.

Hu Jintao

We agreed to intensify our exchange and to develop investment ties,

Ismail Haniyeh

We agreed to hold a meeting as soon as he arrives in Gaza, in about two days time.

Jose Gomez

We agreed to give her $10 (each) just to try to help her out and get her back on her feet,

We agreed to discuss the issue of the missing with good intentions, because there's pressure on Clerides, and we wanted to help out.

Alan Bersin

We agreed to disagree. We continue to disagree about the schedule, timing and amounts in the past but agreed to continue to talk about it.

Steve Mariucci

We agreed to disagree. In my mind, it is a catch, ... It is water over the dam, but I thought Marcus had possession with his hands before he slid out of bounds. There was no ruling of a bobble and I thought he clearly had control of it with his hands before he tucked it away and slid out of bounds. Their view may be a little bit different. But you can go around and around until the cows come home and it's not going to change anything.