Compromise Quotes - Page 9

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we must not compromise or dilute our commitment to the truths we understand.

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.

I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.

I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

Ideological pressure is much more crippling than commercial pressure. Crippling to your own freedom of thinking and creating, crippling the final results. If you wanted to succeed during the really hard-line totalitarian regime, you have to make so many compromises to please the censors that you don't recognize the original idea from the final result.

Love is the one thing on which you should never compromise

Take your time and make sure the person who you do intend to have sex with is someone you deeply love and care about, and make sure you get to know them as much as you can, and make sure by having sex you don't compromise your character.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

Solutions must be based on compromises.