Can compromise be an art? Yes–but a minor art.

There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try to damp down the conflict, that we should compromise it. … I respect...

Japan is ready for compromise when it is necessary, (but) we will be aggressively demanding a certain part in the negotiations while we make concessions in other areas,

You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.

This compromise should be compared neither to the fragile and unsustainable status quo, nor to some idealized, universally comfortable end-state.

I said I’d drive to her place. But she lives in her car, so I don’t see why she couldn’t just drive her place to my place.

Personally, I think the two sides will reach a compromise which will allow China to use some of next year’s quota, and then come next year, the EU will give China extra quotas. Both sides...

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

Our role is very often ruled by the law of power instead of the power of law, … We are too small to change things. We must be very brave to approach compromise.

She’s trying to work a compromise that’s reasonable all the way around.

Not speaking up against pure evil is equal to co-operating with it

The compromise we made with the AA this time was a fair one. It is a privilege for us to use these courts and in order to continue using them we need to work together...

Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.

Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.

The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.

The true measure of success is also you maintaining who you are by the time you reach the pinnacle of success. Never compromise who you are or you will become the product of someone else’s...

Compromising is the only path that all happy couples travel on.

Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for.

You don’t stay married for 33 years and not compromise.

The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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.