A Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Jorge Luis Borges
Argentinian - Poet
August 24, 1899 - June 14, 1986

We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.

Vladimir Lenin

I'm advocating for companies not to make women sign confidentiality clauses just to be able to come to work. I understand that companies need to keep some things secret - like business practices and trade secrets - but confidentiality clauses were never supposed to be keeping private what's happening to people within the workplace. It's a human right issue.

Gretchen Carlson

I was one of the wildest Santa Clauses they ever had.

Mr. T

Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.

James Dobson

You folks feeling the economic pinch? Are you a little fed up with the economic news? It's bad. The department stores, this holiday season, no Santa Claus. They're laying off department-store Santa Clauses. So more bad news for John McCain.

David Letterman

Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket.

Henny Youngman

We have to have a good look at the Constitution. Let's determine where the shortcomings are. Then we can start talking of clauses.

Cyril Ramaphosa

Arbitration clauses have become prevalent in most corporate agreements or contracts for employees.

Gretchen Carlson

The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books.

Thomas Hauser

Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.

Tom Perez

Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown.

Melvyn Bragg

I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

Fredric Jameson

If the Department of Education is serious about fighting for students and protecting taxpayers, a full ban of mandatory arbitration clauses is a no-brainer.

Dick Durbin

I always have music on unless I'm reading aloud, which I always do before I hand anything in. It's the only way to know if a sentence really works, without clunks or cul-de-sac clauses.