Compromise Quotes

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Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration. — Mike Rutherford
Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow… — William V. Shannon
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. — Stan Kelly-Bootle
The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty. — Unknown Author
Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting. — Finley Peter Dunne
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual… — Walter Karp
If the God of revelation is most appropriately worshipped in the temple of religion, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple… — David Brewster
No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be,… — Rudolf Virchow
I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.' — Esther Peterson
You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of… — Bob Dylan
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises. — Carl Jung
A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. — Malcolm X
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it… — Aberjhani
Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. There must be a plan… — Chuck Knox
Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident. — Chuck Knox
Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break — Unknown Author
You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to… — Graeme Samuel
A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion. — Thomas Jefferson

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