Best Compact Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

Source: The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc

“Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.”

People Ifs Ideas Paper Weight Blow Passing Passings Victoria Compact Uneasiness

Book:The Soul of a Bishop

Source: The Soul of a Bishop

“There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.”

Ifs Giving Persons Book Hard Energy Reader Entertainment Bookstores Compact Unwritten

Book:Heretics of Dune

Source: Heretics of Dune

“When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.”

Two Results Party Compelling Compact

Book:Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers

Source: Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers

“Do you know how much money you would save if you changed your light bulb to compact florescent light bubs? How much would you save if you decreased your temperature of your house in the winter by one degree, or increase it by one degree? We just don't know these numbers, but I think displays could make it a memorable change in terms of attention, and also help us translate it in terms of concrete ways on what you can get.”

“The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.”

Eye Photograph Viewers Compact

Author:Alex Webb

“You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a decade after the Civil War and before north/south compact essentially recriminalized black life. During the Second World War there was a need for free labor so there was a freeing up of the labor force. Blacks benefitted from it.”

World Needs Years Looks War Force Black Labor South Decades African American War Of The Worlds Thirty Civil War Relative Thirty Years Second World War Compact Black Lives Labor Force

Author:Noam Chomsky

“...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.”

Government Individual Principles Produce Arise Sovereign Compact

Book:Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles

Source: Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles

“Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects, they do not constitute great innovations in mathematics.... Neither determinants nor matrices have influenced deeply the course of mathematics despite their utility as compact expressions and despite the suggestiveness of matrices as concrete groups for the discernment of general theorems of group theory.”