A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Our argument is that the more networking there is in the prefrontal cortex, the more the person has an upper hand in lying. Their verbal skills are higher. They almost have a natural advantage.
Adrian Raine
This is the earliest verbal commitment we've received. A lot of kids don't have the insight as to what they want to do, and they spend a lot of time waiting on things. Josh didn't want to mess around waiting for offers, and he decided to come into a program where he can have success on the court and in the classroom.
Jim Roffler
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Malcolm Gladwell
It's always more difficult to take on a case in which a contract might contradict or not substantiate verbal promises. However, it's not a burden that's never been met before.
Christine Pritchard
He's aggressive but he's just kind of an even-keeled guy. He doesn't get emotional about things. I think he enjoys the competition, but he's not a verbal guy. His highs and lows are hard to see because he's so even-keeled, which can be good at times.
George Yarno
It should be a good dual. PHS always has a good verbal crowd.
Tim Mccartney
But the relationship was not as strong. But the point is, in women, whether it was verbal or non-verbal intelligence, brain size was positively correlated — that means the bigger the brain, the better they did.
Sandra Witelson
If the student's voice and presence and verbal commands are where they need to be, the operator can deescalate the threat from the scenario. By the same token, if the student is not projecting like they should, or if their commands and their presence are not where they need to be, the threat can be escalated.
Vic Burke
Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.
Alain Juppe
Poor Jesus, ... Christianity was founded so many years ago, and because it's all verbal, there were no copyrights, and his word was open to interpretation. We do not have that problem - Ron wrote everything down, so we're very fortunate that the religion has remained pure.
Susan Taylor
We felt quite sure we had a verbal commitment, but it never made the [agency's] budget. They had cuts at the time. They had every intention of following through on that, but as with any federal budget these commitments don't often materialize.
Jim Porter
Art therapy is about the creation and the discussion of the intent of the client. It's a different way of sharing. No matter how healthy, verbal expression is the hardest thing to do.
Kelly Roberts
The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.
Red Auerbach
We certainly understand there will be tension in the plant, especially given some of the verbal abuse and threats made by picketers during the strike, ... However, we're going to do our best to peacefully bring this workforce back together so we can resume normal operations.
Gary Mickelson
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. [Attributed].
Louis B. Mayer
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
Herbert Marcuse
One of our riders with cerebral palsy recently started talking for the first time. She wasn't verbal, and now she's speaking in sentences. Her mother couldn't believe it.
Chris Hudson
We waited here in the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) premises from morning as per the directives of the court. Then we got verbal intimation that they are not arriving.
Jagmohan Dalmiya
It's still open. It's a soft verbal. Anything can happen. I'm basically down to N.C. State for now.
Darrell Davis
We have a verbal understanding that they won't trade him or think about trading him until the (July 31st) trading deadline. I've got a verbal understanding with Kevin Towers that Dave won't be traded . . . unless somebody wants him at the trading deadline. I'm under the understanding that won't change.
John Boggs
The deal has all but been done. We have a verbal agreement from James and it's just a case of getting the paperwork processed next week.
Mike Fatkin
It's a contract whether written or verbal - and the city was responsible for what it agreed to do - to provide medical insurance for retirees until age 65.
Bill Wyllia
There was apparently a verbal clash followed by a physical exchange.
Terry Denbow
Failing to comply with the officer's verbal commands, the suspect came at Officer Lyons with a machete. Fearing for his safety, Officer Lyons fired his service weapon at the suspect, striking him an undetermined amount of times.
Gary Holliday
Martin's verbal commitment contradicted what they put in writing.
Duff Conacher
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan
The ticket was written, a verbal shouting match took place and then it turned physical.
Fred Raiford
As far as the recreation department, he's been suspended for a year. It's in our recreation department rules that (there's) no physical contact on umpires or even verbal.
George Davis
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.
Cary Cooper
Maybe everybody got a snack but him, so he went over and took a girl's snack — that's normal toddler behavior, and he may need to work on verbal skills. Or, she skipped her nap, and that always leads to trouble.
Barbara V. Howard
Verbal assurances have been given that these principles would be adhered to.
Mark Joseph
He was never verbal about it until it was so clear he had such a talent I couldn't picture him doing anything else. Anything else wasn't going to make sense.
Cliff Finch
We've worked with the sheriff's department for 60 years. It's always been a verbal handshake agreement, but now it's in writing.
Charles Evans
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Audre Lorde
It just felt like home to me. I took my other visits just to make sure, ... I didn't silent verbal [to Notre Dame], but I knew that was where I wanted to go.
Andrew Walls
A compliment is verbal sunshine.
Robert Orben
He's not all that verbal on the field. But when we needed big plays down the stretch, he was there for us. You could see it in his eyes. He was going to make something happen. He's got this inner drive that makes him valuable.
Avery Cutshaw
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
John Von Neumann
CURSE, v.t. Energetically to belabor with a verbal slap-stick. This is an operation which in literature, particularly in the drama, is commonly fatal to the victim. Nevertheless, the liability to a cursing is a risk that cuts but a small figure in fixing the rates of life insurance.
Ambrose Bierce
This service is a great challenge to the verbal identification process used in our investigations. It will bring us serious problems in our work.
Liu Zhengcao
He's probably the most verbal leader. When somebody needs to speak up, he does it. It's inspirational. When they need to hear something from one of their peers, Brad lets them hear it.
Jon Garvin
We found quite a bit of non-compliance in the first road check, but because it was our first, we gave verbal warnings and warning tickets. We're probably going to have three or four more of these this year and as we carry on throughout the year, the penalties will be harsher. The warning tickets will be put away and the violation tickets will be taken out.
Maurice Potesta
TPWD generally allows a one-year grace period and issues verbal warnings to help educate people about new laws. A warning citation will be issued to Mr. Cheney, as is routine in such cases. ... There is no fine or other penalty associated with warning citations.
Lydia Saldana
Stopping motorists or pedestrians in order to provide verbal or written information concerning the current job action is an improper and abusive use of police powers.
Bill Blair
Strategic communication is at the core of effective leadership. Through a leader's use of verbal and written symbols employees are motivated or deflated, informed or confused, productive or apathetic. A leader's ability to carve off the verbal fatand get to the meat of an issue, idea or plan will find success at every turn.
Reed Markham, Phd
To me he said, yes, I mean, it was hectic and it was pretty crazy there for awhile, but again, it's just puzzling how anyone could have arrived at the rape charge, That's my sense of it, that perhaps things from a verbal perspective got out of hand, but I don't think anybody in a million years would have thought that it would come to this.
Vince O'hara
The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
Leslie Fiedler
I would not characterize the conversation as a verbal deal. It was more an exchange of thoughts and ideas, and looking for information. We didn't make any arrangements contrary to what's in writing in the letter.
Alan Dooley
They gave him verbal commands to come out, ... The individual crawled to the end of the house and got behind a pillar or box -- something that obstructed the officers' view.
Ricky Boren
The school has an urgent responsibility to protect all its students from verbal and physical abuse.
Peter Kellogg
Ross is a leader out there. He's being more verbal and that helps everyone.
Daniel Holmes
From Day One when we started, you always hear from people who say, 'Don't you think that if you girls were not so verbal and if you didn't share about purity so much that you would be more popular? But this is stuff that we believe in and stand for.
Alyssa Barlow
There was never a written or verbal agreement for purchase but there was a consideration to do so as one option…to help sustain the Enrichment Center…and now the town's attorney is aggressively working to hammer out an agreement between the town and The Enrichment Center to move them [to the Big H].
Don Mckay
From the middle linebacker position, you have to be really verbal and I have no problem with that. There is no room for a quiet player on the football field.
Mark Zalewski
A verbal commit isn't set in stone, ... I thought about waiting it out, but a blown-out knee, there goes the scholarship.
Ben Chandler
I guess when I sign the contract it's a done deal. The verbal commitment has been made from me to them and from them to me. We've already notified our school here that we won't be coming back next year.
Chris Holt
I want to warn anybody who in any way - either verbal, written, direct or indirect, by electronic messages or through carrier pigeons - communicates with fugitives from The Hague.
Vladimir Vukcevic
The main goal is to respond willingly and reliably to verbal commands. And on top of that, they should be well-socialized and enjoy participating.
Shelly Ferger
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.
Northrop Frye
What is very clear is that there is a correlation between brain size and intelligence, particularly verbal ability.
Sandra Witelson
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
Steve Pavlina
Before he came here, he couldn't really pay attention to commands. You know, like this, I'd say 'come here, Spencer,' and he couldn't do that. But they've really been working with him on verbal, being able to respond to verbal cues.
Jeff Larson
We are a polite people. You'll find Chicago to be a very friendly town. There won't be anything physical, but you can expect a little verbal harassment coming your way.
Mike Richter
I had some verbal information that they will not be coming. But still I came in compliance with the court order.
Jagmohan Dalmiya
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes
This event arises out of a verbal disagreement between a husband and wife. Whether or not that's disorderly conduct or really a criminal manner, that's difficult to understand. I do think this is a situation where a private, at-home dispute may have been developed by the district attorney's office as something more.
Marc Hammer
It started out as some type of verbal argument, ended up in a wrestling or some type of a fight in residence, and Mr. Geffrard ended up pulling out a handgun and shooting, and one of the shots struck the female that's now in the hospital.
Greg Gardner
I'm hoping there will be some voting repercussions. The (county) commissioners really let us down. (Commissioners) Steve Stuart and Marc Boldt gave us verbal agreement that they would do anything they could to keep the clinic from opening.
Elizabeth Thomas
Those two are just quality kids and quality athletes. They just read each other and have a non-verbal communication. They're winners.
Ed Greenman
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