Compromise Quotes - Page 33

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

  Peter Eisenman

  Needs, Architecture, Made

  "Which are the world's ugliest buildings?" by Jonathan Morrison, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2008.

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• Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.

  Adam Young

  Letting Go, Jesus, Eye

  "Interview: Owl City's Adam Young and His God-Inspired Music". Interview with Josephine Vivaldo, www.christianpost.com. June 25, 2011.

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• For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Icons, Dating, Deployment

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• You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

  Nelson Mandela

  Principles, Dangerous, Humiliated

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• In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.

  Dean Ornish

  Important, Weight, May

  "All Calories are Not the Same!" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2009.

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• Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

  John Kricfalusi

  Vision, Modern, Individual

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• Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand. We must not surrender our positions or our values. The gospel of Jesus Christ and the covenants we have made inevitably cast us as combatants in the eternal contest between truth and error. there is no middle ground in that contest.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Commitment, Errors

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• You don't have to compromise to be recognized.

  Wintley Phipps

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• Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

  Charles Rosen

  Character, Artistic, Impatient

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• It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.

  Irvin Kershner

  Pride, Perfect, Matter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise.

  John Walker Lindh

  Law, Islam, Sharia

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• 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

  Team, Guy, Stuff

  "Cheech And Chong Reunite, At Long Last". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 28, 2010.

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• Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.

  Merrit Malloy

  Answers, Fit

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• Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Integrity, Money Power

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• It is a war of light vs. darkness, of Christ vs. antichrist, the Word of God vs. secular humanism. There will be a winner and a loser!.. There is no compromise with the enemy. There is no neutrality in this war!

  John Hagee

  War, Light, Darkness

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• We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.

  Chris Bowen

  Believe, Goal, Empowerment

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• Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

  Albert Einstein

  Taken, Artist, Evil

  Einstein's tribute to Pablo Casals on March 30, 1953. "Conversations with Casals". Book by Josep Maria Corredor, p. 11, archive.org. 1957.

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• Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise as weakness, and they punish it rather than reward or reciprocate it.

  Jim Jordan

  Team, Views, Political

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• Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

  Shimon Peres

  Mean, Desire, Percent

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• In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not compromise our security borders. We want there to be less friction. We want to remove outposts to help the Palestinian population. We will not reoccupy the Palestinian population.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Government, Agreement

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• I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people.

  Ariel Sharon

  People, Safety, Ready

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• I have in the past declared that in order to achieve a real, just and durable peace, I would be willing to make painful compromises. But we cannot make any compromise on the security of our citizens and their right to live without the threat of terrorism and violence.

  Ariel Sharon

  Real, Past, Order

  "Cheney arrives in Israel for talks", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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• No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Party, America, Democracy

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• We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.

  Glenn Miller

  People, Mind, Messages

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• It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women, and I am one of them, it is extraordinarily difficult to care about anything enough to cause disagreement or unpleasant feelings, but I have come to the conclusion that this must be done for a time until we can prove our strength and demand respect for our wishes. We cannot even be of real service in the coming campaign and speak as a united body of women unless we have the respect of men and show that when we express a wish, we are willing to stand by it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Men, Feelings

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

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