Compromise Quotes
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Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
Finley Peter Dunne
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If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.
Sam Altman
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A series is filled with compromises.
William Shatner
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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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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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Now I'm told this is life, and pain's just a simple compromise.
Hayley Williams Paramore
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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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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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Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.
Juan Manuel Santos
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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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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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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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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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Under the grand coalition agreement, some compromise will obviously have to take place for things to work.
Ian Stannard
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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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Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS
William Lloyd Garrison
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It may have come into play, it may not have. But it's the principle. You never compromise those rules. It's very disappointing.
B. R. Hayden
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It seems the collective wisdom of the community came up with a sensible compromise. I think this is probably the best we can expect.
Kevin Moore Chroma Key
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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 morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Charles Handy
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We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.
Glenn Miller
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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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Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics and that there are no easy shortcuts to success. Their companies need ethics carefully sewn into their fabric.
Vivek Wadhwa