Quotes About Concession

Sometimes compromise is painful.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

We were looking for an acceptable compromise.

The realization of dreams, like every battle for freedom, has always required compromise to one degree or another. When the result of a concession, however, is the mutilation of your soul or the cancellation of someone else's future, then it may be said the desired goal was corrupted or destroyed rather than attained.

I denied it, this new land. But love, I'll concede this: whatever state you are, I'll be that state's bird, the loud, obvious blur of song people point to when they wonder where it is you've gone.

Regulation of the sacred liturgy depends solely on the authority of the Church, that is, on the Apostolic See and, as laws may determine, on the bishop. In virtue of power conceded by the law, the regulation of the liturgy within certain defined limits belongs also to various kinds of competent territorial bodies of bishops legitimately established. Therefore no other person, even if he be a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Nobody walks away with everything they want in politics.

One of the ways usually that you build a bipartisan agreement is one side gives up a little, and the other side gives up a little.

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

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

I'm afraid you're going to have to accept it

There's always a way out," said Anthony gloomily. "I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

But once you start giving ground, it's hell to get it back.

Punjabi political leaders who finally joined the Muslim League' apparently 'hoped that that the concession of Pakistan in name' would somehow preserve 'a united India in fact'.

The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.

Ruef attempted to reduce wages by arguing that in the crisis "there is pressing need for mutual concession," so unskilled workmen should accept $2.50 for a nine-hour day rather than $8.00, as it had been before. What made the concession mutual was not specified.

This is how corruption begins. One small concession at a time. One thing you feel you have to do for a good reason.

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land. . . . We are ready for exchange for peace.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.