Any relationship (friend, romantic or business) that’s one sided isn’t one; it’s a one way street headed in one direction… nowhere. Cultivation requires input from willing participants.

COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his...

Jake and I chatted at length and a compromise has been reached. We have agreed to carefully manage the players (in other words, they will not be run into the ground) and in return there...

If it is worth a dream, it’s not worth a compromise!

I had crossed fifty years of my life, and come across uncountable females as son, husband, father, friend in my life. Coming across several women I carefully studied most of them, and feels that I...

They wanted to strong-arm the parties into a dirty compromise, a compromise that in their heart of hearts they knew wouldn’t work.

[W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm? Will Republicans stop their vicious attacks because Obama is lashing out to his left? It was pure self-indulgence; even...

If you could stay as stubborn as when you were a child then you need not to compromise on your dreams.

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is...

Get it – get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The...

Investors are hoping that some kind of political compromise will end political uncertainty.

We feel that the timing is very unfortunate because national efforts are under way to work together on creating a compromise that may include a guest worker program that would allow people arrested today to...

What are we going to do about winning the election? Where are we going to turn to have a viable chance to win this election? And a viable chance to win this election is coming...

Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry – the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

The resolution is going through Campus Safety and to the administration that it affects. We’re hoping to reach a compromise with administration that as long as there isn’t suspicion of a College violation that the...

It’s funny, how for an entire lifetime we keep thinking ‘How’ will our life-partner look like, how will he be? How will he react to a particular situation? How will he get angry, and how...

Compromise is a sign you’ll pass on the road to mediocrity.

I want to say unequivocally that safety is our number one priority. Nothing will ever compromise that.

Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid...

Compromise in colors is grey.

When they say they’re going to veto spending bills and don’t tell us how to work out a compromise fairly, well what does that mean? They’re playing chicken with the budget process.

The compromise view is 25-basis-point increases. No one’s arguing, even hinting, at a pause.

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don’t always agree about things we can still love and look out for each...

If you adjust first time, compromise second time, failure is what you will get third time.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

The House vote will strengthen the resolve of senators who oppose portfolio limits, and increase pressure for a compromise in the Senate, or ultimately in conference, that is less than what the White House would...

The two sides will probably reach a compromise. Currently, there are different voices among the EU countries, so the situation is good for China.

Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you’re used to customizing for fun, doing it...

If Russia and China back Iran on the compromise option [the joint venture], then the issue will not be pushed on to the UN Security Council without consent from Moscow and Beijing.

When we look at Abraham, Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael, we see that God’s grace can survive our three-ring-circuses of compromise, rationalization and weak faith.

We can’t compromise the interests of our members by being forced to pay for uncovered losses.

Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It might be good if we stop using the terms victory and defeat to...

When it comes to morals & principles, a man in the ‘real’ world has two options; compromise or wait for sometime and then compromise.

It just seemed to me, that if you valued a thing, you found ways to keep it from being compromised.

Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,…Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.

It would jeopardize Goggle’s position with its competitors and compromise relations with users.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

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...