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When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines...

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.

You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

With their charm and legendary sense of humor, the British directly or indirectly paved the way for a large number of European compromises.

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

You know what is right. Deep down, you know. The battle between your true wisdom and the counterfeit wisdom of society is what causes frustration. Refuse to compromise with what you know is right-with what is right for you.

You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...

You see something you like?" I asked, echoing something I'd said to him ling ago, when he'd caught me in a compromising position at school. "Lots," he said. -Rose (Roza) to Dimitri

You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

You will find your way. Don't be afraid of getting stuck in some of the necessary compromises. Learn everything you can from each experience, even if something seems irrelevant to your true purpose.

You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.

Adult life is a series of compromises, Adrien.' 'Yeah, only you're negotiating with the Devil.' Still not looking at me, he growled, 'Oh, go to hell.' I raised my water in a toast. 'Sure. I'll follow the trail of bread crumbs you're scattering.

A gospel of contentment is a cheap gospel that teaches Salvation without the cross!

A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.

You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

A mind that opens its door to fears, doubts, grudges, jealousy and anger, compromises its peace in return.

And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.

Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance.

A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.

And what would you like, Sharie?" asked Miss Mush. "What do you have?" asked Sharie. "Potato salad". "What else is there?" asked Sharie. "Nothing" said Miss Mush. "Okay" said Sharie. "I'll have that." "Potato salad?" asked Miss Mush. "No,nothing." said Sharie.

As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.

A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.

As I was growing up, no one in my family got their needs met through respectful negotiation and compromise.

Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.

But memory is less disposed to compromise

Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us?

Change, it seems, is inevitable. And so is compromise.

Applaud to those who withstand the shards of compromise. May laurel leaves sit on your head, and life-long pride be yours for the taking.

At first I was for taking him back to you, myself. But my wife doesn't want me to. So, as usual, we've compromised by doing what she wants. She wants him to stay right here. Next time, his crazy luck might land him in dog heaven instead of here at Sunnybank. She says she'd rather have a live chum than a dead champion. Maybe she's right. I find she's apt to be.

Battlefields are unpredictable places – even under a flag of truce.

Compromise - better bend than break. ― Scottish Proverb

Compromise is a mindset, not an activity.

Compromise is a sign you'll pass on your way to mediocrity.

Compromise is what binds people together. Compromise is sharing and conciliatory, it is loving and kind and unselfish.

Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

Compromise is a sign you'll pass on the road to mediocrity.

Compromise is the assassin of fellowship with God.

Christ needs people today who are made of martyr stuff! Dare to take a strong, uncompromised stand for Him.