Compromise Quotes - Page 35

• Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

  Agnes Repplier

  Shopping, Essentials, World

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• When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.

  Rachel Carson

  Ocean, Water, Elements

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

  Janis Joplin

  Honesty

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• All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

  Henry Clay

  Government, Humanity, Weakness

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• When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

  Janet Echelman

  Ideas, Limits, Permission

  "Imagination Becomes Reality" by Janet Echelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I think if the doctor is a good doctor and has a patient's best interest in mind then he's not going to allow anything to compromise that patient's care. The bottom line is the doctor has to care for his patient. You have to have that overwhelming sense of welfare for your patient.

  Charles Teo

  Thinking, Doctors, Mind

  "Dr Charlie Teo, neurosurgeon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 20, 2011.

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• The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

  Patrick Stump

  Expression, Band, Made

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

  Hortense Calisher

  Balance, Body, Muscles

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• The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Responsibility, Vision

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Church, Hours, Should

  G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Acts of The Apostles”, p.493, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Women, Believe, Home

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Solitude, Energy, Needs

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.22, Knopf

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• If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

  Storm Jameson

  Misandry, Planets, Man Hating

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• it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

  Greta Garbo

  Movie, Art, Office

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• will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Fanaticism

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• Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.

  Jill Johnston

  Cop, Sexuality, Fearful

  Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster

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• The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.

  Mahmud Tarzi

  Honor, Way, Dignity

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• When negotiations are at an impasse, when States dig their heels in, it is time to 'undig' them in a spirit of compromise. We all need to unlearn the predator in us, unlearn discrimination, unlearn privilege.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Needs, Predator, Privilege

  "From New York to World’s Conflict Zones, UN Marks International Day of Peace". news.un.org. September 21, 2012.

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• I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

  Chanda Kochhar

  Mother, Wife, Should

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• I believe the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. That is what makes us different from those whom we fight. That is a source of our strength. That is why I prohibited torture. That is why I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. And that is why I have reaffirmed America's commitment to abide by the Geneva conventions. We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend.

  Barack Obama

  War, Believe, Commitment

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.

  Barack Obama

  People, Evil, Needs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Where I did feel a difference is learning to just work in a different way so that your resources are not completely depleted so that you don't have anything to give to your child when you go home, and fortunately I've been working long enough that I know how to make that shift so that I don't compromise my work or compromise my relationships; not compromising parenting is really the biggest difference.

  Laura Linney

  Children, Home, Differences

  "MR. HOLMES: Laura Linney Talks Sherlock, and Compares Working on TMNT 2 with CONGO". Interview with Brian Formo, collider.com. July 14, 2015.

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• As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

  Tobsha Learner

  Moving, Challenges, Balance

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". Women's Weekly interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.

  Donna Ball

  Divorce, Simple, Faithfulness

  Donna Ball (1997). “Just Before Dawn”, Signet

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• A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

  Bill Vaughan

  Views, Months, Constitution

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