compromise quotes

• If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. (Margaret Thatcher) [compromise/time]
• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing. (Samuel Butler) [virtue/compromise]
• Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [compromise]
• Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/compromise/character]
• A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece. (Ludwig Erhard) [compromise/art]
• A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. (George Herbert) [compromise]
• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship. (James Lowell) [compromise/roof/politics]
• You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. (John Ruskin) [/evil/compromise/evil]
• Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. (Bertrand Russell) [life/men/compromise/compromise]
• The secret code is Tim, ... He's just an amazing guy and filmmaker. He's just so pure and unrelenting and not capable of compromise in terms of his vision. I don't know, we have such a strange language. (Johnny Depp) [compromise/strange/language]
• He's a true original in a business that doesn't put much stock in originality. And he doesn't compromise. That's what makes his movies so good. That's what makes him someone that you'll drop everything to work with. (Johnny Depp) [business/compromise]
• They're not thinking of how it's going to please a mass audience, ... They're really writing it for themselves, and trusting there's an audience out there for what they have to say. Whenever you make a film, there's always compromises you have to make just to get it made, but you really have to ask yourself, 'How much am I willing to compromise to get it up on screen?' and at what point do the compromises mean that you're not really making the movie you wanted to make. (Steve Buscemi) [thinking/film/compromise/point]
• “The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine” (Adolf Hitler) [greatness/compromise]
• “The truth is I can't be with you like this. I mean, I know I said that I could, but I can't. I just can't compromise myself like that. I mean I'm an emotional person. I feel things and I need to be able to get upset and talk about how I'm feeling. I mean that's just...that's who I am and I can't change it. I don't want to. And the thing is you know that, you knew it and you still pursued me because you want something with me, you just aren't strong enough to have it which...in a way makes you a coward. And the saddest part is that...one day you're gonna wake up and you're gonna realize what you missed and it's gonna be too late. (Felicity to Ben)” (Keri Russell) [truth/compromise/feeling/change]
• Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. (Janis Joplin) [compromise]
• All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. (Mahatma Gandhi) [compromise/give/take/give]
• I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end. (David Cross) [people/compromise]
• You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards. (Heston Blumenthal) [money/compromise]

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