X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Compact" (75)

Page 2 of 4
Filter & Style
Image
I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.
Kate Clinton
Image
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
Robert Breault
Image
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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Image
I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.
Raymond Loewy
Image
The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.
Alex Webb
Image
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
Carl Bernstein
Image
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.
John C. Calhoun
Image
I am intrigued by glamorous women ... A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.
Clark Gable
Image
Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.
Eric Baum
Image
Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution of 1688 nor on property, as was the assertion of Harrington. It springs from the necessities of our nature, and has an everlasting foundation in the unchangeable will of God.
James Otis
Image
It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self.
Eric Hoffer
Image
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.
Jack Valenti
Image
Young men now want to be caregivers as well as earners so they have joined with women in demanding a different compact at work they want flex and time for family too.
Stewart D. Friedman
Image
Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a human being it's me!'
Walter Gilbert
Image
Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.
John Adams
Image
There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.
Louise Dickinson Rich
Image
The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.
Edward William Lane
Image
See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.
Walter Scott
Image
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
Theodore Bikel
Image
People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.
David Oyelowo
Image
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.
Eric Hoffer
Image
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
James Geary
Image
[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil.
James Madison
Image
Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.
Bruce Lee
Previous
Next