Compromise Quotes
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.
Sam Altman
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
Finley Peter Dunne
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
Erica Jong
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Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise.
Hayley Williams Paramore
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Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.
John Dalton
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Being in a band is all about compromise. When everybody can compromise and still feel they're going in the right direction, then you have a happy band.
Rick Savage Def Leppard
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A series is filled with compromises.
William Shatner
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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 enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!
Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
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There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs.
Albert Einstein
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Now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out of it. Would someone care to classify a broken heart and some twisted minds so I can find someone to rely on?
Hayley Williams Paramore
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Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.
Todd Solondz
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I agree with you that should work together in a bipartisan fashion, and I believe this work product is a result of a hard-fought compromise.
Dennis Hastert
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The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine.
Adolf Hitler
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The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
Vladimir Putin
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There are no issues that cannot be resolved through dialogue and compromise on the basis of existing legislation and the constitution
Igor Ivanov
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I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.
Bill Vaughan
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Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.
Nicholas Sparks
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The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.
Bijan Pakzad
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Under the grand coalition agreement, some compromise will obviously have to take place for things to work.
Ian Stannard
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What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.
Barbara Gittings
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the only leader in this House that will not compromise.
Jack Layton
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Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.
William Boyd