Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Liu

Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.

Carlton Cuse

I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.

Charles E. Wilson

The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.

Charles E. Wilson

Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

John Cassavetes

I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I'm a revolutionary - but not in the political sense.

Keanu Reeves

It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

We are not aware of whether at the end we will have an agreement or disagreement. We still don't know,

We are not always going to agree on doctrine, but we need to find more common grounds to serve rather than battlegrounds to divide us.

We are hopeful that this agreement will be concluded,

We are hopeful that an agreement can be reached.

Henry A. Kissinger

We are here because cooperative relations with China are in the American national interest. Every president for 30 years has come to that conclusion, and a rejection of this agreement would be a vote for an adversarial relationship with the most populous nation of China.

Daniel Fried

We did not agree on some issues. I made it clear that the United States supports civil society including NGOs (non-governmental organizations) around the world.

Lynn Margulis

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

Janet Malcolm

Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement whereby we are given leave to bend the rules of the strictest morality, provided we do so quietly and discreetly. Hypocrisy is the grease that keeps society functioning in an agreeable way, by allowing for human fallibility and reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable human needs for order and pleasure.

We've taken the step of exposing the governments blocking the agreement so people around the world can call on them to change their minds.

Matt Higgins

We've said all along, until we reach an agreement for a permanent home for the Jets, we will continue to explore all of our options. That hasn't changed.

Al Gore

Eventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty associated with a CO2 tax far exceeds that with a cap-and-trade plan. We're seeing it's hard to get a cap-and-trade plan and it's much easier to use as a basis for a global agreement than a CO2 tax.

Kerry Healey

I've learned that I don't need much sleep, and that I am able to really stand up for the things that I think that are important and that there are a lot of people out there who agree with me.

We have a revenue share agreement varying from artist to artist, so they will benefit from this deal,

We have a partnership agreement with S&P for exchange-traded funds.

We have a partnership agreement and we have an agreement with the NBA that governs how we operate. Those agreements make sure that we do our business, and we're doing our business. It doesn't mean that every bit of business will be done as perfectly as we'd like to get done, but we'll get it done.

We have just ended the fourth round of negotiations with the Chinese aimed at reaching a broad agreement.

We have investigated the incident, and Japan did not agree to the entrance of the police to the consulate and the removal of the five people.

Robert Klein

We're heartened by the fact that (the state Supreme Court) agreed to take another look at the rationale for the decision.

We're happy to agree to a shorter-term extension of the Patriot Act. The important thing is to strike the right balance between liberty and security.

We regularly review our policy and update as necessary. In this case, we were pleased to learn that the EU (European) Commission had embraced the concept of 'layered notices' for privacy policies, emphasizing simplicity and clarity. We agree with that and modified our policies in a way that we hope is both clear and easy to understand for our users.

Jonny Moseley

We're gratified that we're going forward, ... I think we came to a reasonable agreement with the neighbors about their concerns. A lot of the concerns were legitimate, but some were way out there.

We're grateful that the Supreme Court has agreed to take on this important case.

We are all at work, all the services are prepared for signing the necessary agreements in the remaining eight hours before the end of the day and the year.

Jack Straw

We are all agreed that it is extremely important that as quickly as possible there is a broad-based multi-ethnic civil administration in Afghanistan.

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Ross Brawn

This winter and next year he'll do a few more serious tests. It's a kind of open-ended agreement,

Bashar al-Assad

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.