Compactly Quotes

#1. That he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. i would rather be an angel than God

Bram Stoker

#3. I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

Emma Stone

#4. In all likelihood, I was going to be in charge of his entire business empire soon. I would hold the purse strings, and Jo was worried that my main vice - vindictiveness - would mean she was going to lose her cushy lifestyle. For once in her miserable life, she was right.

L.J. Shen

#5. It's not really that much of a big deal - you brush it off and you come back. Defeat is the secret ingredient to success.

Conor McGregor

#6. Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.

Shannon Hale

#7. Not everything in your heart makes it to your mouth. A lot of it gets lost on the way.

Victor Lodato

#8. Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.

Dr. Dre

#9. Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

Regis Debray

#10. I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.

Chuck Noll

#11. Lately I had been finding it hard to understand the simplest things people said to me, as if what they were speaking in were a form of language I did not recognise; I would know the words but could not assemble them into sense.

John Banville

#12. To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run ... is that not also a kind of annihilation?

Nalini Singh