Social Pact Quotes & Sayings

ROM7.3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. — Anonymous

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end. — Jennifer Connelly

So would you like to join me for something to eat? (Jericho) As long as it doesn't involve the entrails of demons, I might be persuaded. (Delphine) Demon entrails have no appeal for me, either. Zeus's are another matter. (Jericho) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box. — Evan Davis

The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who are no longer part of the work force will have a basic income on which to live. It represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute. — Jimmy Carter

God isn't looking for something brilliant; he's looking for something broken. — Bob Kauflin

If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles. — John Horton Conway

You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got. — Elvis Presley

Great courage will be required to choose the right. — Ulisses Soares

This is a world of process, not a world of things. — Margaret J. Wheatley

When I go out, people look at me with a puzzled expression on their faces thinking, "You're Jackie Chan?" When people stare at me, it makes me uncomfortable. More and more I find that I just stay in my hotel when I am working. — Jackie Chan

We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body. — Charles Peguy

A bettre preest, I trowe that nowher noon is. He wayted after no pompe and reverence, 525 Ne maked him a spyced conscience, But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taughte, and first he folwed it him-selve. — Geoffrey Chaucer

One of the most useful parts of my education as a writer was the practice of reading a writer straight through - every book the writer published, in chronological order, to see how the writer changed over time, and to see how the writer's idea of his or her project changed over time, and to see all the writer tried and accomplished or failed to accomplish. — Kyle Minor

If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91. — Mario Cuomo

My face filled with the warm glow of embarrassment preventing me from smiling back so I turned and ran away. — Nicci Greene

Just to deliver one high-quality 45 minute lesson requires many hours of planning in advance. — Dana Goldstein