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For devout unionists, the Constitution had been framed by the people rather than created as a compact among states.
— Gary W. Gallagher
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
— William Shakespeare
As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.
— John Quincy Adams
The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.
— Alex Webb
Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.
— Pete Townshend
I don't have a compact.
— Andrea Cremer
I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.
— Raymond Loewy
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.
— Janna Levin
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
— Charlotte Smith
Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.
— Charles Stross
I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.
— Anna Friel
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
— John Buchan
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
— Barney Oliver
A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.
— Thomas Kinkade
I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.
— Marianne Faithfull
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
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -
"Let there be truth between us two forevermore." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let there be truth between us two forevermore." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
— James Russell Lowell
She'd brought everybody apart, tearing the whole family that was once a compact groundwork into a whole new design, ugly and non-structured.
— Diyar Harraz
Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.
— Robert Toombs
Was just very compact, not much larger than a standard wardrobe. But it was a marvel of ergonomics. It included
— Bill Bryson
He loved books, never going to sea without a newly replenished library, compact but of the best.
— Herman Melville
When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.
— Thomas Jefferson
First, he [Donald Trump] took out like this little make up compact like right here, because he had a sweat mustache.
— Marco Rubio
'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.
— Kyle MacLachlan
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
— Cynthia Ozick
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
— Charles Dickens
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
— Etgar Keret
Love is a spirit all compact of fire.
— William Shakespeare
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.
— Henry Miller
I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved.
— Edward Felten
You are a kitten. The name stays. You are the compact version of a wildcat, so it fits. Kitten.
— Shyloh Morgan
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
— James Geary
MACHOs (for MAssive Compact Halo Objects - really just another name for black holes, brown dwarfs and other very dim stars).
— Bill Bryson
What is the course and drift of your compact?
— William Shakespeare
The Health Care Compact simply gives a state like Oklahoma the option to create a customized system that better meets the needs of Oklahoma families.
— James Lankford
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
— Robert Breault
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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
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.
— Steven Wright
Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. — William Shakespeare
Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. — William Shakespeare
Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.
— Eric Baum
There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system.
— Paul Parker
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
The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...
— Thomas Stockman
German-made Heckler & Koch MP-7 submachine guns with special compact M40 grenade launchers under the barrels.
— Matthew Reilly