I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others,… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Sometimes countries have to go through periods of crises and then rediscover why it's important to be bipartisan and compromise and if… — Robin Wells Copy Share Image
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
India is an independent country, we have our own policies and future. We have to think about the future of our 125… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life,… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the genuine relationships and friendships that some of us have developed across the aisle in recent years does not translate into… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
I live for smiles and hugs and honestly, never made a woman cry. Not perfect, but always willing to compromise. I understand… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
So many people compromise everything; you don't have to do that. You see one opportunity and you're scared to turn it down.… — Tierra Whack Copy Share Image
Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
“Radicalism hates time. Compromise hates eternity. Radicalism hates patience. Compromise hates decision. Radicalism hates wisdom. Compromise hates simplicity. Radicalism hates measure. Compromise… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“To be compromised you need to have a stake in things, you need to have something to lose and something to gain.… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
For me, equal citizenship for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists and Agnostics is an indisputable principle. Whoever you are, you should get the… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Actually since the Convention I have gotten so many letters that I have tried to answer but every letter said they thought… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
While I originally sought broader reforms to the Kid Vid regulations, what we have ended up with is a reasoned and balanced… — Michael O'Rielly Copy Share Image
When I first ran for Congress, I decided that I would not take pledges to vote for or against any issue. I… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“The true measure of success is also you maintaining who you are by the time you reach the pinnacle of success. Never… — Delaine Robins Copy Share Image
When it comes to relationship compromise, it's a fine balance between doing something for your own happiness, and finding happiness in being… — Chris Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Be original, be yourself. In trying to become like someone else, we are compromising our own self being. If we are not… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Attacks on Internet sites and infrastructure, and the compromise of secure information, pose a particularly tricky problem because it is usually impossible… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I like Obama, but I understand that his hands are tied, the way Congress is reacting. It's just partisan politics everywhere, and… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What you are about to hear is God's word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of… — Bill McCartney Copy Share Image
There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We can become great in the eyes of others, but we'll never become successful when we compromise our character and show disloyalty… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies. I write about reconciliation, but… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must… — Chuck Knox Copy Share Image
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