Quotes About Concession

The Governor glared at him for a moment, lips pressed tight, but then his shoulders sagged in defeat. "I will," he said shortly. "But I should regard it as a great personal favor if you would endeavor not to be captured.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.

When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully

They took – or were granted by whoever was in charge

I ought then to have been happy; I was not. It struck me that my mother had just made a first concession which must have been painful to her, that it was a first step down from the ideal she had formed for me, and that for the first time she, with all her courage, had to confess herself beaten.

But he was the one who'd called for compromise, and the nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That's how you knew a fair deal had been reached.

the nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That's how you knew a fair deal had been reached.

Children always find ways to subvert while they're busy complying. This child's method of subversion? She would achieve success, but she would treat it like a concession she'd been forced to make. For unto whomsoever much is given, of her shall be much required. She came to feel that too much had been required of her. She would have her revenge. She would insist on an inner life regulated by despair.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

Freedom, security, convenience - choose two

Wally was so scared he felt a drop of pee drip out. He dropped his snow cone. The wild woman released him and ran toward the concession stand screaming her daughter's name.

It's one small lie, followed by a demand for a bigger lie and a bigger concession, a bigger moral lapse,

The Russo-Japanese treaty of peace, signed at Portsmouth in August, 1905, registers the concession of all the vital points in the demands of the conquering nation.

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

Our current income tax plan was designed by politicians; as such, it was designed to benefit politicians and serve their ends. Frank Chodorov, one of America's past champions of liberty, once observed that, by enacting the income tax, the American government was proclaiming that all wealth belonged to the government, and whatever wealth the government did not seize from the person who created it should be looked on as a concession—a gift from the government.

that could be interpreted as a rhetorical concession that the drug they had been selling all these years actually was, as critics had long maintained, dangerously susceptible to abuse.

She insists on negotiating, and she's not in a position to negotiate.

It seemed to him she understood but was not willing to concede they might be on the same side against anyone or anything.

to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

I say this as a concession, not as a command.