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Quotes About Compact

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
~ George Mason
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties in atrocious criminality and should be immediately annulled.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
~ Epicurus
She was no bigger than a minute,
~ Tayari Jones
Where once there had been life, now was death. And out of death, thus, was life sustained. And in that bloody compact, both the living and the dead were joined in a loop as ancient and immutable as the moon that arced above them.
~ Nicholas Evans
We must be brief.
~ Victor Hugo
Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.
~ Epicurus
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
~ Epicurus
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
~ Theodore Bikel
My genius, if I can call it that, is to combine a whole lot of averageness into one compact frame.
~ Nick Hornby
Mi genio, si se puede decir así, consiste en combinar un montón de cualidades medias en una representación compacta.
~ Nick Hornby
2. I live in an apartment. I could never live anywhere but in an apartment. I love apartments because I lose everything. Apartments are horizontal, so it's much easier to find the things I lose-- such as my glasses, gloves, wallet, lipstick, book, magazine, cell phone, and credit card. The other day I actually lost a piece of cheese in my apartment.
~ Nora Ephron
Love had a thousand shapes. There might be lovers whose gift it was to choose out the elements of things and place them together and so, giving them a wholeness not theirs in life, make of some scene or meeting of people (all now gone and separate),one of those globed compact things over which thought lingers, and love plays. ~Lily Briscoe
~ Virginia Woolf
He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil. He gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice.
~ Charles Dickens
And let us tranquilize ourselves by making a compact. Next time (with a view to our peace of mind) we'll commit the crime, instead of taking the criminal. You swear it?' 'Certainly.' 'Sworn! Let Tippins look to it. Her life's in danger.
~ Charles Dickens
Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact casus non faederis to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them
~ Thomas Jefferson
Oh, it's a snug little island!A right little, tight little island.
~ Thomas John Dibdin
The fact therefore must be that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.
~ Thomas Paine
Norway is a small environment. There are only three to four agents to deal with, just 15 other clubs, and that's it!
~ Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.
~ Wendell Berry
A Russian-made 9K135 Kornet-EM antitank guided missile launcher, compact and easy to assemble," Tarek said like The Price Is Right announcer describing the final showcase.
~ Lee Goldberg
Unlike tongs, these tweezer tongs are slim and compact, fitting into any tool crock, drawer, or even apron pocket if youre all about that quick draw. Theres no fussy locking mechanism to slow you down while cooking, no weird nooks or pockets for food or hot water to get caught in.
~ Sohla El-Waylly
I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech - just a little straight talk among friends.
~ Gerald R. Ford
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
~ Barney Oliver