Lease Quotes

• And yet we are but tenants. Let us assure ourselves of this, and then it will not be so hard to make room for the new administration; for shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

  Joseph Jefferson

  Death, Giving, Tenants

  ""Rip Van Winkle": The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson".

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• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Sweet, Father

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Poetry, Too Short

  Sonnet 18

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• No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Generations, Earth, Conservative

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.

  Sherrie Levine

  Photography, Art, Men

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• Traded him for Alec," Clary said. "Not permanently" "No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back. In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy." "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out." "That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease

  Margaret Thatcher

  Future, Vision, Earth

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• You have to have an open mind about what you're getting into when you cast your lot with another human being - whether you're signing a lease together, buying a house together, walking down the aisle together, or having kids together.

  Laura Wasser

  Kids, House, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life is a lease and God is the landlord.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Life Is, Landlord

  Sarah Strohmeyer (2011). “Kindred Spirits”, p.8, Penguin

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• Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn’t a question of if; it’s a question of when.

  Ben Feldman

  Knows, Do You Know, Ifs

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• I strongly believe that people may not want, or may not be able, to start again from scratch, so giving old furniture a new lease of life is at the heart of my philosophy.

  Nina Campbell

  Philosophy, Believe, Heart

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• I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the unglamorous side of the business.

  Giovanna Cau

  People, Sides, Lawyer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.

  Henri Matisse

  Stars, Philosophical, Mean

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• When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Death, Long, Giving

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• We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the Mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement that brought the Montreal Expos to Washington. Because we believe in the future of Baseball in the nation's capital, we have signed a lease that honors the 2004 agreement, while conforming to the emergency legislation that the Council passed last month.

  Bob DuPuy

  Baseball, Believe, Agreement

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• We need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban?

  William Shawn

  Needs, Feels, Taliban

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• Earth has provided a stable platform for the evolution of life over 4 billion years. But that lease is limited; we know for sure that it will expire after a few billion more. . . . If we are wise, we will have furnished our new apartments long before that time.

  Robert Shapiro

  Wise, Moon, Years

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• My name ain't Keith, so could you lease stop Sweatin' me.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Names, Musical, Keith

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• In real estate, many investors love triple net leases. With NNN's investors receive income without the expenses of taxes, repairs and insurance. The tenant covers these costs.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Income, Cost

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• All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

  Alan Greenspan

  Gold, Derivatives, Commodity

  Alan Greenspan's Testimony Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, www.federalreserve.gov. July 24, 1998.

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• To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

  Lucretius

  Life, Given

  De Rerum Natura, bk.3, line 971 (translated by R. E. Latham).

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• There is a park that is known 4 the face it attracts colorful people whose hair On 1 side is swept back The smile on their faces It speaks of profound inner peace Ask where they're going They'll tell U nowhere They've taken a lifetime lease On Paisley Park.

  Prince

  Taken, Hair, People

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• I think Barack Obama has been a terrible disappointment environmentally. It's very sobering to realize, as a westerner, that under the Obama administration, we now have more active oil and gas leases on public lands than Americans ever did. Obama has been worse.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Disappointment, Thinking, Realizing

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• I live out of a bag. I just looked at what's going on for me, I'm not gonna be back in England for more than a week between now and March of next year, I think, which is crazy. By that time the lease is up on my apartment! I'm getting a kick out of being homeless.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Crazy, Thinking, March

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