Top 1200 Marriage Contract Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Employment is a contract between an employer and an employee. Thus, laws prohibiting discriminatory pay are an infringement on private contracts.

The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

I had a good contract at Southampton, the managers in the Premier League are very well paid, but in football you need ambition.

The time has come in our society when I see great wisdom and purpose in a United States Constitutional amendment declaring that marriage is between a man and a woman. There is nothing in that proposed amendment that requires a criminal prosecution or that directs the attorneys general to go out and round people up, but it declares a principle and it also creates a defensive barrier against those who would alter that traditional definition of marriage.

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

In WCW, your future was determined by the time you signed the contract. I was the lowest-paid guy in the company at $75,000.

Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

I'll answer as many questions as I can, but when people have a contract at other football clubs, I think it's wrong to talk about them.

Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.

But last summer I signed a contract extension and that was me committing my future to Fulham. I live around here, I'm settled. I love it.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.

Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

In one fell swoop we can now see the same mental health benefits of marriage for same sex couples as heterosexual couples, the main reason there is a benefit to being in a legally recognized marriage is that it introduces a level of stability into a relationship. This is going to help change the social climate. Hearing the Supreme Court say this is OK will help couples feel like they're part of regular society.

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

It seems like the requirements for my characters are that I have to be either mentally ill or disturbed in some way, or I have to be physically beaten. It's in my contract.

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

If I told you that the big contract had nothing to do with my signing, Id be lying. It made the future secure for my family.

There are so few barriers to working with artists because the contract is brief and straightforward, it allows us to just move instantly.

I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

It's become the norm that a player who has another year on his contract period has a decision between separation or extension.

I'm just grateful my dad never got a contract with Donald Trump, because I don't know what we would have done.

The Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice should take a long, hard look at the standard publishing contract.

I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everything comes so easily. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That is the only real way to grow together, instead of apart.

I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.

'Top Model' is pretty good, because it gives these girls an opportunity to chase their passion and possibly get a contract.

What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to drugs or was abusive, simply talking about it wouldn;t take the hurt away; or fix the trust that's been lost. In the end, marriage comes down to actions. I think people talk too much about the things that bother them, instead of actually doing the little things that keep a marriage strong.

The 19th century Mormons, including some of my ancestors, were not eager to practice plural marriage. They followed the example of Brigham Young, who expressed his profound negative feelings when he first had this principle revealed to him. The Mormons of the 19th century who practiced plural marriage, male and female, did so because they felt it was a duty put upon them by God.

We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples due process and equal protection of the laws. Civil marriage is one of the cornerstones of our way of life. It allows individuals to celebrate and publicly declare their intentions to form lifelong partnerships, which provide unparalleled intimacy, companionship, emotional support and security.

When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract.

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

The wonder of marriage is woven into the wonder of the gospel of the cross of Christ, and the message of the cross is foolishness to the natural man, and so the meaning of marriage is foolishness to the natural man.

As a whole, when it comes to business in general, whether it's buying a building or contract negotiations or whatever it is, you have to take emotions out of it. That's what people forget.

No other human relationship can approach the potential for intimacy and oneness than can be found within the context of a marriage commitment. And yet no other relationship can bring with it as many adjustments, difficulties and even hurts. There's no way you can avoid these difficulties; each couple's journey is unique. But there is much you can do to prepare for that journey. An engagement is not just a time of preparation for a wedding, but also preparation for a marriage.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

I am very convinced that I did not contract Ebola in the isolation unit, because our process is so safe.

I think I signed some contract, early on in my career, that I will only kiss Steve Carell when I do a movie.

Top Model' is pretty good, because it gives these girls an opportunity to chase their passion and possibly get a contract.

It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.

I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

I've been with Def Jam Records for five years and they gave me my first recording contract so for that I'm forever grateful.

Therefore, when you enter into anything, as a frightened being, that contract you make with another person out of fear, has to fall apart.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the stereotype - that women want to get married and men are trying to avoid it. Marriage doesn't benefit women as much as men, and it never has. And women, once they are married, become very critical of marriages in a way that men don't.

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.

I don't want to be like those guys that, two or three years into their contract, they do really good, and then they don't care.

I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.

I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

We call upon you to let your "happily-married" light shine. Happily marrieds are not "perfect marrieds," but they have learned some of what it takes to create happiness in marriage. We encourage you to find ways to let people know that you love being married! Let those who are not yet married know that the adventure of marriage is worth the effort - that the rewards are worth the price!

I walked away from pro football and a $2.9 million contract with the San Francisco 49ers because I didn't want to develop CTE.