Top 197 Compact Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.

We will continue our work on the Global Compact for safe, orderly, and regular migration.

The emotional compact between football clubs and their supporters is visceral and usually lifelong.

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.

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

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

People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

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

I always keep a damp beauty blender and a powder compact in my purse, and I touch up a lot.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

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

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

I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.

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.

The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.

Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

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

There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and efficacious operation of the Government of the United States. The Government of the U.S. like all Governments free in their principles, rests on compact; a compact, not between the Government & the parties who formed & live under it; but among the parties themselves, and the strongest of Governments are those in which the compacts were most fairly formed and most faithfully executed.

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

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

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

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

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.

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

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

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

A lipstick and eyeliner and a powder compact can keep you looking fresh and attractive all day.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

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

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.

Short pitchers often have compact, repeatable mechanics that can lead to good control and command.

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

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

The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and consequently that as the parties to it, they must themselves decide in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.

In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day.

Love is a spirit all compact of fire.

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

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.

A compact defense has always been the basis of Italy's team.

See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

The idea of anyone collecting compact discs just seems bizarre to me.

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.

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.

If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

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.

The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected.

'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.