The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
First, Donald Trump took out like this little make up compact like right here, because he had a sweat mustache. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share 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… — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and… — George Mason Copy Share Image
My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will… — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work… — John Hollander Copy Share Image
A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Because of my compact and muscular body composition, my short hair, and my "Johawk," I have been mistaken for a boy on… — Joanna Lohman Copy Share Image
You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals,… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Trees which grow in places facing the course of the sun are not of porous fiber but are solid, being drained by… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as loud… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact. — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain. — James Geary Copy Share Image
I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact. — Aerin Lauder Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore." — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image