Pact Quotes

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

— Abraham Lincoln

Wagers and pacts are made with angels - or with devils.

— Paulo Coelho

I cook every night: it's part of the marriage pact.

— Jack Thorne

“Same old Satanic pact, only more of it.”

— Thomas Pynchon

Break a pact. Accept forgiveness. Make a bet.

— Paulo Coelho

At 8, I made a pact with God.

— Taylor Caldwell

“Suicide pact: I’ll shoot you, and then you’ll shoot me.”

— Jarod Kintz

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

— Dan Castellaneta

“And so the pact of timelessness between us was broken and I went from him into the darkening tunnel of the years.”

— Farley Mowat

Donald Trump doesn't believe that the Constitution is a suicide pact.

— Rush Limbaugh

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

— Edmund Burke

“You are still alive, not because you are special, but because you and the world have unfinished business.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Like orphans at a Thanksgiving meal or stray dogs huddling on a cold night, they had an unspoken pact.”

— Linda McDonald

That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.

— R. K. Milholland

“I mean, what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left.”

— Zoë Heller

The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation…

— Roger Nash Baldwin

Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a…

— Adolf Hitler

I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to…

— Blythe Danner

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to…

— Angela Carter

I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).

— C.S. Friedman

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who…

— Sam Mendes

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be…

— James L. Brooks

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of…

— Haniel Long

Following the attacks in Paris, French President François Hollande has a completely different set of concerns. France needs more police, more security…

— Martin Schulz

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed…

— Salman Rushdie

I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each…

— Norman Schwarzkopf

The pact you have with your angels is they will stay with you throughout your life for protection. If you get off…

— Doreen Virtue

The greatest finish line for me was finishing college - it was a pact I made with my mother, during a time…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

I've heard [Bernie] Sanders comments, and it's really caused me to wonder who's left in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.…

— Hillary Clinton

President Obama flew to China a few days ago and announced a joint environmental pact with the communist regime. The United States…

— Erick Erickson

Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know…

— Geneva Overholser

In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since…

— Donald Rumsfeld

We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong…

— Charles Peguy

During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another…

— Sebastian Junger

Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but…

— Aristotle

That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when…

— Nick Hornby

“And so I ask you now, dear friend: was this world worth saving to begin with? Were we worth saving? This endeavor…

— Hugh Howey

I keep telling my American friends, "If you think of Donald Trump as only something that is happening inside the United States,…

— David Frum

I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.

— Brad Pitt