Compromised Quotes
118 quotes by 110 authors
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It is not possible to sin enough to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enough to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or…
— Sheri L. Dew
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Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams…
— Douglas Coupland
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The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.
— David Foster Wallace
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I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is…
— Julia Quinn
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From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this…
— Russell Brand
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Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They…
— Michael Ondaatje
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So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant…
— Garth Stein
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The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The…
— Brennan Manning
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love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed…
— Nora Roberts
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[Kenny] leaned back against the counter and studied the other man. “So Dex, how’s come you’re still alive to tell the tale?†Dexter wiped up…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.
— Charles Finch
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There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
— Gilles Deleuze
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Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances…
— George Packer
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Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself…
— Louis Althusser
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He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete…
— Nelson Mandela
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I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very,…
— Maurice Sendak
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She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her…
— Haruki Murakami
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For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up…
— Caitlin Moran
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I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded…
— Anthony Kiedis
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Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better…
— Og Mandino
Who Wrote These Compromised Quotes
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