Best 544 quotes in «compromise quotes» category

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?

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 situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.

I believe life's too short for compromises and bad fitting jeans

I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

Ideological pressure is much more crippling than commercial pressure. Crippling to your own freedom of thinking and creating, crippling the final results. If you wanted to succeed during the really hard-line totalitarian regime, you have to make so many compromises to please the censors that you don't recognize the original idea from the final result.

I'd never even thought about compromise when I worked in my studio. The major distinction is in the priority of who I ultimately wanted to please: myself or the audience.

I don't see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can't really compromise because of age.

I don't recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise.

I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself.

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.

I do want to see an immigration compromise. And you can't have an immigration compromise if everybody's out there calling the president a racist.

I don't want to make compromises. I want my little silly jokes to be told with the correct punch line, and I'm satisfied trading off the immediacy to fulfill the detailed work of the artistic end of things.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

If there was compromising material that had a shot at actually making Trump behave the way the Russians wanted him to, I would imagine it would be something financial - illegal, dirty dealings, or something with legal import.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.

If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human, there's self-reflection. Sigmund Freud should replace the Gideon Bible in motel rooms.

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.

I'm always on the road, and there's a very male-dominated energy where I am. There's that aggressive energy surrounding me, all the time. So, in personal peace and harmony, I've totally made a gazillion compromises.

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

India seeks friendly relations but without compromising on its interests.

In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".