Compromise Quotes

994 Compromise quotes by 780 unique authors

Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break… — Jonathan Lethem
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. — Jeanette Winterson
There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a… — Dave Barry
The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as… — Terry Tempest Williams
It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will… — Suzanne Collins
Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and… — Annie Dillard
there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a… — Mitch Albom
I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe… — William Styron
Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise. — Janet Evanovich
In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise. — Richard Russo
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is… — Alain de Botton
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who… — Ayn Rand
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil… — Ayn Rand
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. — Ayn Rand
I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret. — Alan Moore
Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You… — Salman Rushdie
Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window… — Margaret Mitchell
And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain… — Sarah Dessen
When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We… — June Jordan
But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting… — Neal Stephenson
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding… — Zelda Fitzgerald
There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly… — Zelda Fitzgerald
...accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live together in unwavering… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to… — Barry Lyga

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