Compromise Quotes - Page 19

• There can be no compromise on moral principles.

  Ayn Rand

  Principles, Moral, No Compromise

  Ayn Rand (2001). “The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers”, p.51, Penguin

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• Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

  Ayn Rand

  Black And White, Men, Sides

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1964). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”, Signet

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• You cannot compromise principles to achieve unity

  John H. Groberg

  Unity, Principles, Achieve

  John H. Groberg (1993). “The Other Side of Heaven”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.

  Randy Alcorn

  Black And White, Army, Fog

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• What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Real, Order, Romance

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.157, Vintage

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• Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Real, Mean

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• Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Law, World

  Helen Jerome, Jane Austen (1936). “Pride and prejudice: a sentimental comedy in three acts”

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• People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.

  D. A. Carson

  Prayer, Thinking, Self

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• Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break every last one of them? All except for one, I suppose: the promise to judge ourselves by those standards, the promise to remember the child who would be so appalled by compromise, the child who would find jadedness wicked.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Children, Mean, Judging

  Jonathan Lethem, Tom Perrotta, Lester Bangs, Aimee Bender, Amanda Davis (2007). “Lit Riffs”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Almost There, Ifs

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.

  Dave Barry

  Native American, Men, Mutual Benefit

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.12, Ballantine Books

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• The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Mind, World

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.40, Random House

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• The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Creativity, Diversity, Making Love

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• It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.

  Suzanne Collins

  Awful, Neighbor, Come Up

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.889, Scholastic Inc.

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• Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.

  Annie Dillard

  Hands, Ideas, Facts

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.31, Canongate Books

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• there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz

  Mitch Albom

  Love And Marriage, Goes On, Common

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• I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.

  William Styron

  Hands, Honor, Suffering

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• Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Commitment, Comfort, Sticks

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• Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.

  Janet Evanovich

  Clothes, Bed, Mood

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• In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

  Richard Russo

  Sacrifice, Companionship, Ends

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Aug 10, 2010

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• Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.

  Alain de Botton

  Falling In Love, Elude Us, Self

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

  Ayn Rand

  Winning, Evil, Hatred

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.170, Penguin

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• I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

  Ayn Rand

  People, Half, Way

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.483, Penguin

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• I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

  Alan Moore

  Regret, Shadow, Steps

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• Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.

  Salman Rushdie

  Betrayal, Thinking, Sight

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