Concession Quotes
37 quotes by 35 authors
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Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If…
— John Updike
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The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake of art, but…
— Pope Dionysius
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Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is…
— Barack Obama
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Moore's only concession to the Democrats' role-playing is to deny that he is a Democrat, hoping enough Americans were taught by public school teachers that…
— Ann Coulter
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When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain belief is necessary…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
— Jalal Talabani
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My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better…
— Haley Barbour
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Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
— Howard Hughes
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I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in…
— Steve Nash
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People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in…
— Charles de Lint
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Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior…
— Clarice Lispector
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In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
— Zadie Smith
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When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they…
— Unknown Author
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It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not…
— Ali Babacan
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I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to…
— Olivia Newton-John
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The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the…
— John Bright
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If God permitted divorce rather than death as a merciful concession to man's sinfulness, why would He not also permit remarriage, since remarriage would be…
— John Macarthur
Who Wrote These Concession Quotes
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