Quotes About Pact

#1. Same old Satanic pact, only more of it.

Thomas Pynchon

#2. As a writer, you're making a pact with the reader; you're saying, 'Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.'

Mark Billingham

#3. Oh, to be held as though nothing else in the world mattered. It was a promise. Every touch, every kiss, was a silent pact to love and adore the person to whom it was given.

Alexandria Clarke

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

Angela Carter

#5. But we made a pact that night to try. To stay true to ourselves and each other. It's what you have to do when you're a girl. Stick together. Remember what you love. And stay true.

C. Drew Lamm

#6. Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.

Emma Goldman

#7. The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements.

Andrey Illarionov

#8. I was about to move out of my apartment because I was so broke. I'd sort of made a pact with myself that I wouldn't take a job unless it was interesting to me, and I became broke very fast.

Michael Pitt

#9. It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us.

Carlos Maria Dominguez

#10. Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did.

Jenny Uglow

#11. There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

Sam Mendes

#12. I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

James L. Brooks

#13. The Russian parliament has condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

Vladimir Putin

#14. We've made a devil's pact, swapping convenience and efficiency for an ever-increasing tyranny of information and choice.

Amy Webb

#15. Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people.

Adolf Hitler

#16. The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out.

Alfred Jodl

#17. If I wasn't mated, and wasn't straight, and you were a Mage, and we hadn't made that pact for friendship's sake, I would totally screw you.

Scarlett Dawn

#18. They'd made a pact to be friends forever, but forever could be so, so brief.

Nick Cutter

#19. When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?

Jose Saramago

#20. And so I make a pact with the devil, or in this case, my mommy.

Kristan Higgins

#21. The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

Adam Michnik

#22. I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.

Walter Mischel

#23. There is a production and distribution pact, so they help with the production financing and take international territories and do international distribution and marketing.

Courtney Solomon

#24. The love between man and woman is a voluntary pact in which the one who falls short is only guilty of perfidy, but when a woman has become a mother her duty is greater because nature has entrusted the human species to her. If she fails then she is a coward, unworthy and infamous.

Guy De Maupassant

#25. I know plenty of dances. My favorite is called Not Getting Your Legs Broken for Stealing Figs from That Baker on Pearl Lane." "That's sure to charm the princess right into a wedding pact.

Jessica Khoury

#26. No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.

Winston Churchill

#27. Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You ... Be Free ... Share.

Steve Maraboli

#28. When push comes to shove, what's Faust without his pact? Nothing. No one. We'd never have heard of him.

David Mitchell

#29. What about the pact they made with our pack? (Pandora)
It's dissolved. If they pull any more of your kin out of their time period, I'm going to send them a special welcoming committee. (Dante)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#30. I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.

Alfred Rosenberg

#31. Her divorced friends had made a pact not to leave each other alone on nights when loneliness had extra strength.

Mitch Albom

#32. If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.

Erykah Badu

#33. But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#34. The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.

Nina Easton

#35. He's lost his muse, Signor Salvatore. Max made a pact with her and gave up his normal life. But his muse has gone. Now he doesn't have a life--either a normal one or an artistic one. And s he's on a quest to find her.

Nina George

#36. Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Chris Christie

#37. We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!

Caity Lotz

#38. When the battle is over, the winners find it very hard not to pursue their violence. If you are strong enough to hold violence, you are strong enough to hold true to your pact. Then you have more moral fiber than most adults. Free will is one of the pillars of being human.

Alan McCluskey

#39. I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

Albert Gubay

#40. Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.

Neal Shusterman

#41. The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.

Ma Jian

#42. President Obama flew to China a few days ago and announced a joint environmental pact with the communist regime. The United States will reduce its carbon emissions substantially over the next 11 years. China will do absolutely nothing but hope that its emissions decline after 2030.

Erick Erickson

#43. To be a great pilot you have to make a pact with the devil, but don't let him swallow you up.

Ernst Udet

#44. They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell.

Adolf Hitler

#45. However, you cannot force smokers to stop, and although all smokers secretly want to, until they are ready to do so a pact just creates additional pressure, which increases their desire to smoke. This turns them into secret smokers, which further increases the feeling of dependency.

Allen Carr

#46. The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in united fronts.

Roger Nash Baldwin

#47. We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

George W. Casey Jr.

#48. We were married in Capri almost two years ago and we have made a pact with each other to visit the beautiful island and the church where we were married every year for the rest of our lives.

Giuliana Rancic

#49. We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.

Pamela Glass Kelly

#50. There was a pact, unspoken but a pact all the same. You couldn't keep punishing someone for the same crime no matter how badly you wanted to. Fish or cut bait. April was on the pier, whether she was coming or going she did not yet know.

Michelle Gable

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

C.S. Friedman

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

Brad Pitt

#53.
Let us make a pact, she said. To madness at every juncture!

Jesse Ball

#54. Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.

Ernest Renan

#55. They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future.

Paulo Coelho

#56. There are times when it becomes necessary to make a pact with the devil. But it can be especially delicious if one devil is used to bedevil another, don't you think?

Jeffrey Perren

#57. You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you'll be really straight with them at all times.

Michael Pollan

#58. Boys might play with swords, but it took a lord to make a marriage pact, knowing what it meant.

George R R Martin

#59. The profound originality of a divine-human pact in which both parties complain endlessly about each other has too rarely been acknowledged as such.

Jack Miles

#60. I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#61. Song girls have an unspoken pact: to make life as easy as possible for Daddy.

Jenny Han

#62. What is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left.

Zoe Heller

#63. We need women friends, women who challenge us. I have chosen not to have any more plastic surgery. Sally Field and I have kind of made a pact about that. It's really hard, especially if you're a public person. But I want to give a face to aging.

Jane Fonda

#64. At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the logic of the madhouse, a recipe for collective suicide. We dont want a global suicide pact. We want a global survival pact

Mohamed Nasheed

#65. 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

#66. A pact must be kept and a secret must never be revealed ...
Pact of witches

Pet Torres

#67. I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to work while the other one was.

Blythe Danner

#68. Bee, I will always choose to believe you first. So it is your serious responsibility to be righteous in what you do. It is the pact that must exist between us.

Robin Hobb

#69. Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Benito Mussolini

#70. Love's night and a lamp
Judged our vows:
That she would love me ever
And I should never leave her.
Love's night and you, lamp,
Witnessed the pact.
Today the vow runs:
"Oaths such as these, waterwords."
Tonight, lamp,
Witness her lying
- In other arms.

Meleager

#71. So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year.

Lord Robertson

#72. It's kinda me and Jon Stewart have a pact together - so he's making me famous in the Western world and I'm making him famous in Egypt!

Bassem Youssef

#73. For a lot of the players it was their first exposure to the Southern female - the most flagrant cheater in the mutual disarmament pact known as feminism. Lipstick! Hairdos! Submissiveness!

Michael Lewis

#74. I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.

David Steel

#75. Hungary shares more than it may like to admit with its former Warsaw Pact allies Romania and Bulgaria. Fischer explained that despite its economic progress, Hungary still cannot easily escape its past:

Robert D. Kaplan

#76. The pact we have with Japan is interesting. Because if somebody attacks us, Japan does not have to help. If somebody attacks Japan, we have to help Japan.

Donald Trump

#77. Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go after the ball hard, guard hard. If you play soft (what I call signing a 'non-aggression pact' with your teammates), you won't ever get into shape.

Pete Carril

#78. The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.

Joseph J. Romm

#79. The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact.

Robert H. Jackson

#80. There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

Robert C. Solomon

#81. After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that has worked to prevent warfare between the two.

Frans De Waal

#82. You know your girls up to no good when her and her friends make a pact to post nothing on Instagram.

Dane Cook

#83. As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed," he said, "the whole thing crumbles.

Jon Ronson

#84. I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

Bette Midler

#85. I have signed a pact with life: we will not get in each other's way

Janusz Korczak

#86. (Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.

Victor Borge

#87. I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn't.

Jeremy Corbyn

#88. At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.

Laurent Fabius

#89. Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.

Adolf Hitler

#90. They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.

Paco Ignacio Taibo II

#91. Los Angeles signed a pact with the devil and lost its soul a long time ago, you know? It flourishes, but it's doomed.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#92. Reliance in its most basic, daily, form is being part of a group that lives by a pact: To always have each other's backs - no matter what - so that everyone comes out future strong.

Bill Jensen

#93. Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness.

Paulo Coelho

#94. Buenos dias, she said in response to Hernandez's soft greeting. They had a pact to speak only Spanish to each other, with the result that their conversation never got beyond hello and good-bye.

Wallace Stegner

#95. The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Farley Mowat

#97. The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

Robert H. Jackson

#98. Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk..agreed

Nicholas Sparks

#99. I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#100. Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

Sharon Salzberg