Compromise Quotes · Page 33

“He wanted slow. He wanted lingering and teasing, and she was not in a patient mood. As with so much in a…

— Eileen Wilks

Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.

— Guy Garvey

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

— Edmund Burke

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Relationships aren't easy, they take hard work from both people, equal amount of giving and taking, respect and compromise.

— Nishan Panwar

This is football, and one cannot be distracted at any moment because the opposition can put you in difficulty and compromise a…

— Javier Zanetti

If you wish to have a harmonious relationship you must learn to communicate and compromise...

— Milana May

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

— Paul Kagame

Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the…

— Barbara Hepworth

I have to see a definitive cut of the film before I even start thinking about the music, I tell the director…

— Ennio Morricone

If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going…

— Thaksin Shinawatra

Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control…

— L. Lionel Kendrick

The only formula we have when we work together is that we both have to have a product we can endorse when…

— Curt Smith

Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage…

— Thomas S. Monson

It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social…

— Theodore Kaczynski

Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing…

— Madisen Beaty

“My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils…

— Randall Balmer

Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple…

— Alan Watts

The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the…

— Twyla Tharp

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a…

— H. G. Wells

It's interesting, but I literally will not compromise for anybody. That's for wrestling, filmmaking, anything I do outside of the ring.

— Darby Allin

Everyone in the world would say that you have changed a lot, but no one in the world will look into your…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

— Paloma Faith

I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to…

— Marcello Giordani

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

— Anonymous

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

— Ludwig von Mises

“Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big…

— Jonathan Rauch

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common…

— Anonymous

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be…

— George Packer

Compromise says: Its better to change a little rather than to lose someone forever! Ego says: It is always better to leave…

— Anonymous

You ever get tired of being the bigger person? Or tired of being the one to compromise. Or realize you've come to…

— Anonymous

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

— Jalal Talabani

If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you…

— Napoleon Hill

Sometimes the heart doesn't agree with the mind, what's important is that YOU should know when to compromise, when to let YOUR…

— Abhishek Tiwari

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!

— Benito Mussolini

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when…

— Claire McCaskill

Sacrificing all our individual needs doesn't strengthen a relationship. Mutually supporting each others personal growth does.

— Ritu Ghatourey