Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are in intensified negotiations with union leaders in order to reach consensual agreements that reduce labor costs by $1.4 billion annually.

We are hoping to reach an agreement later today.

We are disappointed obviously that the union decided today to set a strike date. Our hope had been that we could get an agreement with the players without the players taking this step that causes such concern to so many of our fans. Our disappointment is magnified by the fact that as a result of compromises by both sides we made substantial progress towards a new agreement over the past weeks. A number of important issues have been resolved and we are close on many others.

Andrew Demetriou

We are delighted with the financial result - this income will greatly assist the game to grow nationally at all levels. There was more to the agreement than just the dollar value, however, with market reach and exposure given equal weighting in the decision-making process.

We are delighted to reach agreement with Remedy on an acquisition that will allow us to serve a broader range of customers with an expanded line of products and development platforms,

We are delighted to have reached agreement with the GAA in a very positive, productive and businesslike manner.

Christian Horner

We are delighted to have extended our agreement with Michelin for the 2006 season, which forms another significant part of our overall package for next year,

We are delighted to confirm that Visa has signed an eight-year partnership agreement with FIFA and will become one of six FIFA partners with global rights to a broad range of FIFA activities.

We are delighted to be working in collaboration with Endeavor. This partnership represents a significant step toward an exciting future of expanded integration between technology vendors. As a result, this and future agreements should continue to deliver tangible improvements in the way library system vendors provide solutions and services to their customers.

Unfortunately, we have not come to an agreement with the other organizations. Ideally, we don't want to be divided, but that's what we did. Hopefully, we'll set one place so we can have a great impact the way other states have done.

Unfortunately, the TV is out of warranty, so we cannot fund the repair, and the service contract agreement was made with the retailer who is now out of business.

Richard Tyler

Agreement is the by-product of listening and understanding.

Thomas Sowell

Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.

Robert Musil

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.

Rush Limbaugh

Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.

Thomas Carlyle

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

Stephen Harper

Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.

Rumi

The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.

Steve Earle

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Stephen F. Lynch

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.

Tom Tancredo

The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support.

Tina Fey

...the Rule of Agreement reminds you to “respect what your partner has created” and to at least start from an open-minded place. Start with a YES and see where that takes you.

S. I. Hayakawa

Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.

Thom Mayne

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

Vicente Fox

At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

Vernor Vinge

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

Stephen Covey

All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements

Stephen Young

Questions are far more effective than defensive statements. They do not imply agreement, but they do convey interest and a desire to understand and facilitate an environment for peak performance, a central thread of effective leadership.... The next time someone accuses you of virtually anything, ask some questions. Resolving the situation may take more time, but the outcome will likely be more productive for both of you.

Ron Wyden

Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.

Steve Albini

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

Steven Pinker

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

Michael E. Mann

Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably consensus viewpoint we'd like to show w/ the Jones et al and Mann et al series).

Michael Emerson

Maybe there's even anger. But if they make it through that they come to a new agreement, and they start creating a new culture, and it becomes something that people just - a lot of times they'll say, "I couldn't live without it. I just have to be there."