Compact Quotes
Compact Quote of the day
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.
Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.
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.
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.
It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.
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.
See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."
A great brand is a promise, a compact with a customer about quality, reliability, innovation, and even community. And while the concept of brand is intangible, brand equity is far from it.
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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.
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.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.
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.
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!'
The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.
I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
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.
I was in a grocery store. I saw a sign that said 'pet supplies.' So I did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said, 'Compact cars.
Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
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.
When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
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.
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.
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 I want a small take-everywhere camera, I prefer my iPhone 5, which has colors and tonal range superior to any DSLR or compact digital camera I've ever used at their default settings.
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.
The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.
Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.
I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.
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.