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Quotes About Compact

A sonnet might look dinky, but it was somehow big enough to accommodate love, war, death, and O.J. Simpson. You could fit the whole world in there if you shoved hard enough.
~ Anne Fadiman
house, no bigger than a box of notecards. The
~ Anne Tyler
Lincoln's jogtrot prose, compacted of words and phrases still with the bark on, had no music their ears were attuned to; it crept by them.
~ Shelby Foote
without any express compact of all the commoners.
~ John Locke
I think I'm quite a clever player and that I realise there are times when I can be offensive but others when I must be more compact and work for the team, because that is what matters.
~ Andre Schurrle
I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.
~ Carmen Laforet
I kind of love that British style: two seasons of tight, compact, good television. The more episodes you have, the thinner the episodes get.
~ Chris Sullivan
In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
~ Candice Olson
All Men have a Right to remain in a State of Nature as long as they please: And in case of intolerable Oppression, civil or religious, to leave the Society they belong to and enter into another. When Men enter into Society, it is by voluntary Consent, and they have a Right to demand and insist upon the performance of such Conditions and previous Limitations as form an equitable original Compact.
~ Samuel Adams
It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.
~ Barack Obama
Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
~ Ann Patchett
Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap?
~ Sophie Kinsella
The Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth ... it laid the corner stone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity, and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfilment of the prophecies, announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Saviour and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets six hundred years before.
~ John Quincy Adams
I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly.
~ Abigail Breslin
You don't need equipment of any kind to get a good workout in. In fact, you can get a good workout in the smallest of spaces, from a dorm room, to a studio apartment to a hotel room.
~ Harley Pasternak
I'm tiny. I'm small.
~ Claire Denis
I've only ever seen a couple tiny home spaces that are actually a clever use of space.
~ Jonathan Scott
He was built like a very small supermarket: Compact; expensive if you crossed him.
~ Markus Zusak
minimalist clumps.
~ Jojo Moyes
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
He was about six-feet tall, built close to the ground,
~ Jon Spoelstra
To miniaturize is also to conceal.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men
~ Epicurus
We will continue our work on the Global Compact for safe, orderly, and regular migration.
~ Miroslav Lajcak