Best 544 quotes in «compromise quotes» category

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises.

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.

It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

I've got to find a compromise where I don't feel compromised. I've got to find something equally good that they don't feel uncomfortable with. At a certain point, it's no longer about what I thought was right, but it's about this new discovery that happens with the actors. It's nice when the actor is also a writer.

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States...

I've made compromises to survive in life, and to be able to do what I want to do. But, once anything has been put on screen, I've never made a compromise.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.

I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.

I was shocked when I tried to articulate this to someone who had posted the film and asked them to remove it for a few months, and I actually told them that after that they could put it back up and they were just completely unwilling to compromise - you'd think I was Rupert Murdoch or something.

I was recruited by the former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. And I never forgot his key message to me when he was encouraging me to come in. He said: “You must hold fast to your values. If you have to compromise your values in order to join us, you lose your value to us.”

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

Lasting change is a series of compromises.

Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.

Live for who and what you love and never compromise your beliefs for anything or anyone.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

Love is the one thing on which you should never compromise

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

Make your decision for what is right not expedient, and wash your mind of all compromise.

Make no compromise in quality.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

Me as a person...I'm really laid back, I'm really an on my own time type of person so its just kind of like if I have to compromise some of that for the mainstream success...to me its not really worth it. I just like to sing.

Never compromise and sell yourself short.