Compromise Quotes

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

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

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

In fact, I think - our view of this is that while the agreement, the compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing.

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

I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

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

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

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.

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

I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.

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

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

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