Contractual Obligation Quotes

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Mr. Adams, you may with great truth, assure the United States that whenever they shall fulfill the treaty on their part, I, on my part, will fulfill it in all its particulars.

The law has outgrown its primitive stage of formalism when the precise word was the sovereign talisman, and every slip was fatal. It takes a broader view to-day. A promise may be lacking, and yet the whole writing may be "instinct with an obligation," imperfectly expressed. If that is so, there is a contract.

Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

When we signed to G-Unit, 50 made us sign the paper that says, 'You can't talk about nothing about me.' He makes everybody sign that.

Mr Tony Hopkins says he's willing to do it if he likes the script.

Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term.

You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see you. You have an emotional contract with people. To break up is to violate that contract.

When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

BP cannot undo a settlement it negotiated and signed just to avoid its consequences.

The honorable senator who introduced the legislation to pay me the $25,000 for my Civil War negative collection demanded half the proceeds, but I will not name the honorable gentleman.

And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.

If a man, after having promised, either verbally or in writing, a certain dowry to his daughter, loses part of his property, he can give his daughter a dowry in accordance with the property as it is now, and neither father-in-law nor son-in-law shall go to law on that account.

It would almost need a Mafia-like offer I couldn't refuse to do another movie.

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

When you sign a contract, you must respect that.

I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles

I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.

When you sign a contract, that's your deal. Everyone has different deals anyway.

You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.

Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

If a parent chooses to go to a school that is not a public school, then that is a decision made and a contract made with that provider.

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.