Quotes About Compact

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 lightly altered.

I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that's a pretty small car!

What is this?' 'A Smart Car' It looked like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car

Chuck is a short guy but he works out a lot, so as a result he's built like a fire hydrant. Most of the time he acts like a fire hydrant, too.

He is well satisfied with his accommodation, which provides all modern amenities in a compact and convenient form, and leaves him the maximum amount of time free for his work. How much time people waste in walking from one room to another.... Space is time.

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.

In the suburbs, a manageable life depends on a compact among neighbors. The unspoken agreement is an honest hypocrisy.

My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him.

But Little Saigon as strategic hamlet is not just physical real estate. It is also mnemonic real estate, for according to the informal terms of the American compact, the more wealth minorities amass, the more property they buy, the more clout they accumulate, and the more visible they become, the more other Americans will positively recognize and remember them. Belonging would substitute for longing; membership would make up for disremembering.

Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side.

A bargain is a bargain.

The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.

Mice and Men is a compact and, in its origin, a highly personal response to the powerlessness of the California laboring class

That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, w

Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.

German-made Heckler & Koch MP-7 submachine guns with special compact M40 grenade launchers under the barrels.

The recent signing of the Coalition Compact had only further marginalized Mars in favor of the far more populous political centers on Earth and Centauri III, earning the Red Planet such sardonic sobriquets as "the cosmic Canada.

The note was brief—three paragraphs, two hundred and seventy-three words, the lines crowded together as if for warmth.

Why coerce when you can contract ?

My hometown is still compact,

The relationships (Maxwell's equations) are the epitome of mathematical consieness, compact enough to fit on a T-shirt yet powerful enough to describe all manner of electromagnetism.

Prepositions are vital, of course. What would we do without in, of, by, for, on, and so forth? But as useful as those compact little words are, they must be limited and controlled or they'll fill the sentence with chaff, disrupt its flow, and force its rhythms into an annoying singsong.

Universal experience," he began, proved the necessity of "the most express declarations and reservations … to protect the just rights and liberty of Mankind from the Silent, powerful, and ever active conspiracy of those who govern." The new Constitution should therefore "be bottomed upon a declaration, or Bill of Rights, clearly and precisely stating the principles upon which the Social Compact is founded.