#contra

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

— Sam Goldwyn

#paper #verbal #worth #written

We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#british #british people #contract #enabling #ensure

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. ↗

— George Soros

#contradicts #different #financial #financial markets #generally

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

#contraceptive #education #men #men and women #women

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#agriculture #asia #contrasting #countries #developing

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#contrast #dark #dark shadows #earth #lights

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#certificates #contrary #degrading #desire #earth

I don't pitch for contracts. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#i #pitch

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#cannot #contrary #country #damage #despite

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! ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#academy award #age #award #contract #got