Best 544 quotes in «compromise quotes» category

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'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.

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

India seeks friendly relations but without compromising on its interests.

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

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.

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

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

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

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.

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.

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.

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.