Top 99 The Pact Quotes
#1. The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out.
Alfred Jodl
#2. 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
#3. We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.
Joseph Stalin
#4. It was all as it had been,
except for the weight of the present,
that scuttled the pact we made with heaven.
In truth there was no cause for rejoicing,
nor need to turn around, either.
We were lost just by standing,
listening to the hum of wires overhead.
John Ashbery
#5. And so the pact of timelessness between us was broken and I went from him into the darkening tunnel of the years.
Farley Mowat
#6. Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness.
Paulo Coelho
#7. As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed," he said, "the whole thing crumbles.
Jon Ronson
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. What is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left.
Zoe Heller
#11. I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.
Albert Gubay
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.
Jodi Picoult
#17. (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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
#21. 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
#22. 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
#24. Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.
Mark Twain
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#30. The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.
Joseph J. Romm
#31. 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
#32. I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.
David Steel
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#37. Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French ... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
Pat Robertson
#38. The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#39. You know what happened to the last guy to make a pact with Lucifer, right?" "I thought he was still hosting American Idol." "Exactly," said Perp. "A fate worse than death.
Robert Kroese
#40. She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.
Jodi Picoult
#41. Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.
Mahmoud Darwish
#42. Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.
Erma Bombeck
#43. The Polish people be allowed to have a voice in the kind of govt. they want. Under the Yalta Pact the Soviets agreed they & others would be allowed to do this. The Soviets have never honored that promise.
Ronald Reagan
#45. After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a pact that has already been signed; it's a secret told to the mouth rather than to the ear.
Edmond Rostand
#46. The adhesion of Coca-Cola is an affirmation of the expansion of the Global Pact and the importance it assumes worldwide, especially on the US market where more and more enterprises have decided to get involved.
George Kell
#47. History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke
#48. 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
#49. I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live
Jodi Picoult
#50. Most of the staff members were like that; they returned smiling after we hurt them. It was as if they had made a pact not to give up on us.
Ishmael Beah
#51. We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye.
Sid Vicious
#53. You've seen their logo - it's an apple with a bite taken out of it. That bite is the symbol of the moment mankind broke their pact with God, transgressed their own innocent nature, and chewed into consuming and consumerism. We have externalized all wonder, materialized our inherent magic.
Russell Brand
#54. There is an unspoken pact between best friends that stipulates the following:
To induce laughter, all you have to do is look at your partner-in-crime - even in the absence of said crime.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#55. when a territory could change its national affiliation as the result of a marriage pact or a fortuitous inheritance,
Anonymous
#56. The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact.
Francois Mauriac
#57. Colonel Aureliano Buendia could understand only that the secret of good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude- 205
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.
Alfred Rosenberg
#61. 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
#62. No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.
Winston Churchill
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. And so I make a pact with the devil, or in this case, my mommy.
Kristan Higgins
#68. 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
#69. When I say to the Moment flying;
'Linger a while
thou art so fair!'
Then bind me in thy bonds undying,
And my final ruin I will bear!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#70. The Russian parliament has condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
Vladimir Putin
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston S. Churchill
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.
George W. Casey Jr.
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. They make a secret pact with themelves never to think about the future.
Paulo Coelho
#86. 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
#87. I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).
C.S. Friedman
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell.
Adolf Hitler
#94. To be a great pilot you have to make a pact with the devil, but don't let him swallow you up.
Ernst Udet
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.
Chris Christie
