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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

Life, relationships and success is not for compromise.

‘And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants...

Does the process dump the Sunnis by the wayside or do they stay and hammer out a compromise?

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

How many millions there are who don’t want to go to Hell, but they don’t want to get off the road to Hell.

We are here to find a compromise, which means we have to calm things down.

There is a reason for both sides to compromise here for something that would be short of full repeal but would still provide a substantial reduction,

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

But memory is less disposed to compromise

We need to understand the perspective of the other race, and we need to understand that compromise is not a dirty word.

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

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new group of people who are even less inclined to or capable of crafting...

The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now...

We want the end of autocratic monarchy and there should be no compromise with the King.

When you compromise your life, you compromise unhappiness.

It was a good compromise. We’re all happy to have labor peace again.

Willingness to compromise with others ‘ ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make living happy and fruitful.

The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its...

With a definite purpose, plans of actions to fulfil purpose,high level of willingness to follow plans, and a never compromising nature. Living is at maximum. For this I have concluded that problem of an unconscious...

There is too much money at stake. At some point, somebody will blink and work out a compromise. If not, there will be plenty of competitors to Blackberry to fill the lacuna.

This would have given the jury something to compromise on if they felt there was not enough evidence for murder, yet three kids are dead and someone has to pay.

He wrote his opinions to try to find a compromise, so all sides are now studying it.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

We should find a compromise which would suit everyone,

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics...

The devil is compromise

Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains not optimal decisions but more or less satisfactory compromises between conflicting...

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

It will be a compromise. The Union will be able to push through fewer reforms than they planned to, or than we need.

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.

The one issue where we differed but hope soon to reach a compromise is over Turkey.