Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

Make fair agreements and stick to them

We are comfortable with the terms of the tentative agreement. And the reason that we're comfortable is not only does it not reward the employees for going on strike -- no matter how you spin it, none of the penalties are waived, mitigated, ameliorated or a blind eye cast to them -- the contract is cheaper and better for the MTA than what was on the table at the time the strike commenced.

We are closer to an agreement than we were before and both sides have shown flexibility, ... critical stage.

Celso Amorim

We don't want to bury the agreement, ... and we don't want to resuscitate it, either.

We have been in negotiations with those folks. We have signed an agreement to sell the club to them. But with the approval processes being what they are, nothing is a done deal until it's done.

We have got an agreement from the Water Authority that whatever steps have to be pulled out, those steps are going to be pulled out with a view to having your new wage levels or your new salary scales by May 1, 2006.

When negotiations come back up for affiliate agreements in January, it could very well be that UPN will lose that distribution,

Bernard Arnault

We will go there with an extremely open mind. If they are really serious . . . we should be able to find an agreement without too much difficulty.

We will do everything we can to get an agreement by May 31.

We will continue to focus on optimizing our dairy business, and to create and bring new products to our customers. This agreement illustrates that we are willing to work jointly to resolve disputes, and it allows us to avoid the expense and inconvenience of protracted litigation.

We would order the free negotiations period for 30 days, and if no agreement is reached, a purse offer must take place 15 days later, with the fight not later than 90 days after the biddings.

Tom O'Brien

We would certainly like to see an agreement reached that would see the continued operation of our mill, but if that's not possible and the mill does shut down, the streetlights will come on in Stephenville that night and every night thereafter,

Silvan Shalom

We would be very happy to stop the building of the fence or destroy it in the future if we reach any kind of agreement with them.

There has not been an agreement about if it will be a Major or Minor League deal, but both sides are working hard at trying to get an agreement that works for both parties.

There has been an agreement on the differences including the federalism issue, ... This will give guarantees for the Sunnis.

There is a commercial agreement in place with Bernie for both races, with the agreement of nine of the 10 teams,

Clay Shirky

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

Daniel Kahneman

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

We came to an agreement within the past hour.

We came to an agreement that acknowledges what everybody wants - the player being rewarded for performance.

We are not pulling out from the cease-fire agreement or anything.

We forged both of those agreements so that Abbott's vascular business will have some significant growth opportunities in either situation.

We made clear that we were concerned about the perception of an agreement with the AFA. The perception that a big company from corporate America had made a pact with an extremist organization was very worrying.

The problem is not yet solved but we hope it can be solved eventually through this agreement. We have to take the momentum of this agreement and see that it is implemented.

We have a tentative agreement. We don't expect anything to be changed.

We have not seen sufficient progress, ... Whether or not we can reach an agreement ... depends on North Korea's efforts.

Gerry Adams

The demand that has been made on me is that the IRA has to decommission its weapons before the agreement carries on, and that is a demand I cannot deliver on,

Jean Giraudoux

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

There is no question that these agreements represent a major step backwards for our union, ... We made these agreements only because it is painfully obvious that the results of bankruptcy proceedings would have been far worse. The company has been provided with everything it needs to survive. We can only hope that they will not squander the opportunity our members have provided them.

We're continuing to work towards getting an agreement prior to Friday's deadline.

We're confident that once Congress has all the facts, they will strongly endorse an agreement that will help cement a new and important strategic partnership between the United States and India.

Salva Kiir Mayardit

It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their Nationality, nor have they been reduced to the condition of one and the same people. If one of the States chose to withdraw its name from the contract, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so ...