#compact

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#comes #compact #dark #expresses #frame

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#enemy #freedom #majority #our #society

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. ↗

— John Buchan

#comfortable #compact #conspiracy #folk #keep

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. ↗

— George Mason

#civil #community #compact #every #general

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. ↗

— Susannah McCorkle

#american #articles #compact #contributions #discs

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#compact #first #fundamental #government #larger

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#fair #made #poverty #rich #who

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#compact #lover #lunatic #poet

There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system. ↗

— Paul Parker

#compact #many #more #skiers #skiing

There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us. ↗

— Oliver Kahn

#back #beat #change #compact #difficult