Quotes of: Compact Keyword

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be light...

Wilfrid Laurier

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Epicurus

She opened a small silver compact and looked at her face in its mirror. I am still guiltless, she thought, I have not done it yet. But I will look the same when I have done it; nobody will know the difference by looking at me. She touched the little ...

Angels of Darkness

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

Thomas Kinkade

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

William Shakespeare

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Epicurus

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

Theodore Bikel

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

William Lloyd Garrison

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

Henrik Ibsen

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

Charlotte Smith

'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a very sleek, compact little experience.

Kyle MacLachlan

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Barney Oliver

There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system.

Paul Parker

I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.

Raymond Loewy

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

John Buchan

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.

Edward Felten

I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.

Anna Friel

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

Robert Toombs

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

Jon Meacham

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

Susannah McCorkle