Best 544 quotes in «compromise quotes» category

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

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

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 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.

I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.

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

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.

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

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.

I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that.

I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

I'm not gonna be one of those actors who's like, "It's such a drag to not see your kids." Of course it is, but that's the compromise that you're making.

In Africa, you cannot come into a comfortable material lifestyle without going through Christ. So many Africans say, "I'll take the whole package. That way I'm sure I'll get what I want." This is the compromise the rising urban class of Africa makes. Christianity is not seen as a soul-transforming device capable of producing redemption, but as a source of substantial material gratification.

India seeks friendly relations but without compromising on its interests.

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

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

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.

I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

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

I should say that all compromise is a "stepping down" of the Truth, is trying to reduce something which cannot be reduced, and that for anyone who has understood life these compromises are impossible.

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

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

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

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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'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 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 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 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 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 very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.

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.