Best 544 quotes in «compromise quotes» category

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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 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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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 marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

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

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 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 Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

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

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.