Compromise Quotes - Page 38

• Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

  Christian Bale

  Art, Giving, People

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Life is full of compromises, and whether or not you're willing to negotiate.

  Julianne Moore

  Life Is, Willing

  Source: collider.com

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• In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

  Michael Haneke

  Unexpected Gifts, Cinema, Actors

  "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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• But glittering prizes and endless compromises, Shatter the illusion of integrity...

  Neil Peart

  Integrity, Illusion, Endless

  "Song: The Spirit Of Radio (Permanent Waves)". December 1979.

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• The most important thing is not to allow yourself to find an excuse that will let you not to do something you really want. Doing compromises makes people weaker.

  Valentina

  People, Important, Want

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• When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

  Beau Willimon

  Party, Way, Middle

  "House of Cards' creator Beau Willimon plays a solid hand". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2013.

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• Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best qualities are the result of a struggle whose outcome is tragic. Yet he is a creature of love.

  Lionel

  Struggle, Simple, Men

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• Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Flower, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1340, Delphi Classics

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• God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Knowledge, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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• The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Work, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.238

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• If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done.

  Malcolm X

  Running, Country, Kings

  "Ice Cube: Attitude". Book by Joel McIver (p. 177), 2002.

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• The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

  Neville Cardus

  Law, Orderliness, English Love

  Quoted in Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Cardus on Cricket (1977).

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• My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for the Vice-President to do it all.... There should be no compromise of our Constitutional rights.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Rights, House, President

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• Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.

  Gayle Rubin

  Truth, Lying, Thinking

  Gayle Rubin (2011). “Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader”, p.174, Duke University Press

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• In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Talking, America, Listening

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.215, Penguin

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• Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. Twenty millions in the temperate zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, full of vigor, industry, inventive genius, educated, and moral; increasing by immigration rapidly, and, above all, free--all free--will form a confederacy of twenty States scarcely inferior in real power to the unfortunate Union of thirty-three States which we had on the first of November.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Real, War, Hands

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• You can never truly understand or help others, even in your own family, unless you first look thoroughly into your own life and deal with your own sins without compromise, excuses, or evasion (Matthew 7:1-5).

  John C. Broger

  Helping Others, Looks, Firsts

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• Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified and systematic, and as an end in itself, the Christian response to postmodernism will be muted by the surrounding culture or will make illicit compromises with the truth-impoverished spirit of the age. The good news is that truth is still truth, that it provides a backbone for witness and ministry in postmodern times, and that God's truth will never fail.

  Douglas Groothuis

  Christian, Biblical, Views

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• If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

  John Legend

  Want, Way, Ends

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• The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us,
  the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Judging, Enabling, May

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• With Republicans in control of the Senate for the first time since Barack Obama took office, the president may find it harder to appoint left-wing lawyers to judgeships. Whether he compromises on some of his nominees, including any to the Supreme Court, may depend on the willingness of the new Republican majority to engage the president on judicial philosophy.

  Terry Eastland

  Philosophy, Wings, Office

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• If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Eye, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

  Francois Hollande

  Peace, War, Agreement

  "Ukraine crisis will not be solved by military means, says Angela Merkel" by Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2015.

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• We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border.... We will find a compromise within the country.

  Petro Poroshenko

  Country, Peace, Fire

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• If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Might, Firsts

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