Compromise Quotations

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

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

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

At the end of the day, if it looks like you're not going to get paid, you might be willing to compromise to make sure that budget actually comes out. It's not all about your extreme point of view.

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

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.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.

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

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.

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

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 David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.'

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.

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

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future.

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.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or six years, the fun went out of it for me; a lot of the music went out of it.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas.

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans.

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

There should not be an entitlement that because you get paid the most money, that you should finish every game. But if you don't do it, then the agents are going to call, and the players are going to mope, and so you negotiate that. It's a compromise as a coach.

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

Independent cinema is more thoughtful, delicate. While Western blockbusters can have their own kind of delicateness, it's not delicate enough. You have to be ready to compromise to enter that field. I will do so only if it's worth it.

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.

Product investment, quality management, and all the things that are key for a car company - great, there has been no compromise in those aspects. But I feel there's a lot we could do on communication, particularly from a Chinese perspective.

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

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

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

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

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

I'm willing to give up a little control but not a lot. So I say I want the money, but when push comes to shove, I'm not sure I'll be able to compromise in order to make the big studio movie. Maybe something in between would be okay, like a low-budget studio film.

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.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency.

Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

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

The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.

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

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.

I've been really lucky thus far with acting, in that I can do things I believe in and feel good about, and feel good about myself. If for some reason one day that ends, I won't do it anymore. If I feel like I have to compromise myself to continue to be in this industry, I don't want to do that.

Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

The positive and negative indications right now are that Milosevic has made a half compromise and he is still defying the will of the international community on other issues,

We are pleased with the consistently high level of academic achievement by our student-athletes. Penn State strongly encourages and endorses Academic Progress Reporting and other forms of protecting the interest of the student-athlete earning a meaningful education. We recognize that currently some institutions are slightly penalized for reporting at a higher standard, but we will not compromise that standard.

Whether one is left or right, Jerusalem has a place in Israel's 3,000-year-old history. ... Israel cannot make the sort of compromise they want.

What this bill would do is a poison pill amendment to require the school board to approve the existence of a new charter school going forward. So this idea that this is some kind of compromise measure, that it lifts the cap but provides the oversight, is completely misleading. In fact, it's designed to pretend to lift the cap, but in fact, squash any new opportunity going forward.

With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.

We feel that the timing is very unfortunate because national efforts are under way to work together on creating a compromise that may include a guest worker program that would allow people arrested today to come into compliance and work legally in the United States.

We're pleased with the compromise we hammered out with the EPP and we hope it will achieve a majority in the plenary.

Ultimately he's likely to be forced to compromise more, ... there hasn't been very much in the way of backing down.