Compromise Quotes - Page 32

• This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.

  Bernard Beckett

  Stupid, Hero, World

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.

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• By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, War, Years

  Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• San Francisco can start right now to become number one. We can set examples so that others will follow. We can start overnight. We don't have to wait for budgets to be passed, surveys to be made, political wheelings and dealings ... for it takes no money ... It takes no compromising to give the people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

  Harvey Milk

  Rights, San Francisco, Numbers

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• If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.

  James Lee Burke

  Writing, Worry, Silence

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• Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

  Kitty Kelley

  Differences, Done, Tables

  "Kelley softens tone in new books" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. February 07, 2013.

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• If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Style, Purpose, Want

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• The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

  Charles Handy

  Strong, Business, Men

  Charles Handy (1995). “The Age of Paradox”, p.90, Harvard Business Press

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• 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

  Art, Tired, Years

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• In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.

  Ron Fournier

  Forgiving, President, Voters

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• Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Principles, Purpose, Use

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.

  Ted Cruz

  Government, Long, Size

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• 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.

  Rick Bass

  Dream, Ambition, Realizing

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• 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

  Brave, Risk, Lines

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

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Way, Norway

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• 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

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

  Aidan Chambers

  Thinking, People, Important

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

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Believe, Mean, People

  Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.

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• Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

  Jose Carreras

  Jobs, World, Singers

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• Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

  David James Duncan

  Ecosystems, Environmental, Holy

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• Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and biological attacks on this country. Our allies will also be troubled by his aspiration to eliminate U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.

  Frank Gaffney

  Country, Europe, President

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• I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

  Don Ellis

  Levels, Come Up, Mass

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• There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

  Glen Campbell

  Art, Light, Media

  Glen Campbell, Tom Carter (1994). “Rhinestone cowboy: an autobiography”

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• Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Principles, Truthful

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• Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

  Rodney Crowell

  Heart, Advice, Crass

  Song: This Too Will Pass

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• I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

  Erica Jong

  Sadness, World, Way

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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