#contra

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#paper #verbal #worth #written

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#churches #comparative #contrasted #country #distinctive

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract? ↗

— Bill Goldberg

#collect #contract #could #go #half

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#capitalism #civilization #contradiction #dawn #improving

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them. ↗

— Terry Gross

#creates #disappointing #everyone #i #image

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything. ↗

— Val Guest

#bits #bits and pieces #comedy #comics #contract

I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years. ↗

— Gloria Stuart

#contract #i #i quit #quit #universal

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#contradiction #elsewhere #fire #fundamentalists #good

It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms. ↗

— King Hassan II

#arms #contrary #cowardly #down #his

Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#extreme #gentlemen #i #ladies #living