Compromise Quotes

If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going to be forever chaos. It's time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law.
Thaksin Shinawatra

Time, Democracy, Law

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Charles Sumner

History, Human, Country

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
Cee Lo Green

Patience, Acceptance, Tolerance

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.
Jonathan Shapiro

Death, May, Sometimes

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
Robert Fritz

Yourself, Possible, Left

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.
Horst Koehler

Leadership, Political, Country

I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.
Jeremy Irvine

Work, Job, Hard

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.
Mike Davidson

Time, Good, Art

I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.
Jennifer Saunders

Love, Good, Bad

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

Important, Afraid, Nation

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.
Benjamin F. Wade

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
T-Bone Burnett

Health, Art, Business

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.
Cheech Marin

Hard, Why, Team

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
Brad Holland

Art, Society, Democracy

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.
Ehud Barak

Peace, Brave, Between

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.
Bill Dixon

Work, Art, Tired

The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.
Jose Serrano

Government, Medical, True

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
Emanuel Cleaver

Work, American, Means

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

Worse, Ground, Middle

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.
Steve Chabot

Money, Control, Though

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

Politics, Violence, Democratic

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
Enid Bagnold

Art, Theatre, Second

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.
Roger Mudd

Worth, Story, Whether

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.
Charlie Crist

Today, Tell, Idea

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.
Jay Carney

Time, Good, End

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
Ed Wood

Cannot, Vision, Artist

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
James M. Baldwin

Success, Failure, Feeling

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!
Hillary Scott

Time, Two, Learn

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

Help, Sure, Tried

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

Worked, Bipartisan

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