When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts...

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.

Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none.

It’s a bit of a compromise, … There is a cultural resistance to the polygraph that is different at the FBI than at the CIA. A polygraph is something that is given to new employees...

Failure people deal with life’s disappointment whereas the real people ride on disappointment to take the best lesson out of it to understand the character of persons they had in their network then. Dealing is...

I have asked the leaders to settle the issues fast and reach a compromise as it will permit the Iraqi parliament to complete the draft constitution in time.

The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution.

By then, we will be able to see whether the Senate has reached a compromise on immigration reform.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

There is time to compromise. There is time to absolutely abhor d word. Most times it is the latter. Compromise is mediocrity. Compromise is cheap.

The heart of compromise is the willingness of all parties to sacrifice reciprocally and equally for the greater good of a relationship. Reconciling conflicting needs for the sake of unity can’t work if just one...

It is the weak man who urges compromise–never the strong man.

In the spirit of compromise.

Foreign Minister Lavrov was clear that Russia remains committed to non proliferation and any Russian compromise proposals are within that context.

I had thought that North Korea might compromise even a bit in order to speed up talks on normalization of diplomatic ties, but as always our message fell on deaf ears.

If we are to put an end to division, people from all political persuasions will have to stop fighting one another and seek true unity, not just a consensus that benefits one party.

There’s got to be some compromise. The stakes are just too high.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

It is clearly understandable that negotiations are extremely difficult, … It is hard to recognize what compromise can be reached, but I think, and others agree with me, that a compromise is necessary for Ukraine.

If you have one checking account, two, whatever . . . remember to communicate with each other and bank responsibly. Compromise; that’s what it’s all about.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could...

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met...

…it is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. -Wilbur Wright, 1911

There is no compromise when it comes to someones delicate feelings, the only way out is to stop pretending and set yourself free from someones life.

I recall Decimus instructing me while at work that wrong friends will make my heart yearn for sin more than it usually does. Compromises will be easier and wisdom will be replaced with folly. I...

Sometimes what we seek to gain through “winning” a conflict is not worth what we’re refusing to sacrifice. And true compromise often involves sacrifice: As on the path between Scylla and Charybdis, the monsters of...

A man’s wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Sometimes in life, you do things you don’t want to. Sometimes you sacrifice, sometimes you compromise. Sometimes you let go and sometimes you fight. It’s all about deciding what’s worth losing and what’s worth keeping.

[Over the last three months of campaigning for chairman, he stressed no compromise on issues. When he declared last month that] I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for, … organizational skills.

Rather than compromise, parties are more likely to stake extreme ground knowing they won’t get what they want because it allows them to communicate to voters what they stand for.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much...

Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: “He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.

These people don’t compromise. They don’t go away. If we don’t take a stand, they will walk all over us.

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn’t I choose the lesser good?

That image of a chessboard — an epic contest between two giant players, carefully nudging their pieces around the globe as part of a grand strategy — has indeed become a familiar metaphor for the...

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...

Everything must now be done to help the negotiating parties reach a sustainable compromise as quickly as possible.

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

We would not intentionally compromise its integrity when there are other ways to tell the history of this milestone.

We cannot accept anything less than the least that we have accepted in the American compromise, … And I think that has to be made very clear to the Israelis.

This was my first real lesson in politics… If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best...

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.

It looks like a workable compromise.

I remember the second time I took Agatha out. I wanted to go to Dairy Queen, and she wanted to go to Burger King. In the end we settled for wieners and clams at Johnny...

After intense debate and discussion, whereupon the guiding question was whether we compromise with or take on the ZANU-PF dictatorship … the council resolved to stay out of the ZANU-PF senate project,

You will not mock me—and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death. I have been through all that, and I will not chase after you...

Once we begin to work on a compromise document, I think new problems will continue to emerge.

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.

If Ukraine holds out and manages to strike a compromise with Russia, then Russia’s ambitions to restore its influence in this part of the former Soviet empire could be finished.