- Nov 07, 2020
Compromise Quotes
Lines about where to bend and where to hold firm.
This set looks at compromise mostly through creative work, including a musician describing how a solo songwriting process still leaves room for others to add their own parts and argue over the result. A filmmaker's line puts it more bluntly, noting that budget limits eventually force a compromise whether or not one is wanted. Related themes continue on the Balance quotes page.
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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
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We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.
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But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises - not now and not in the future.
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After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise.
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Among directing teams, you find a high percentage of brothers. You need the ability to compromise. With siblings, you've grown up with a pattern that, yeah, every once in a while you have to give in for the greater good, for the family collective.
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I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
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Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.
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The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
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If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
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I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.
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I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.
- Nov 07, 2020