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Quotes About Concession

We who reject Trump's bankrupt leadership must heal old wounds, reorient ourselves, and embrace common goals. And if there is one thing on which we can all agree, it's this: we cannot concede any ground.
~ David Brock
Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.
~ Hannah Arendt
The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98 but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.
~ Simon Greenleaf
Trade negotiations require compromise.
~ Barry Gardiner
We've seen, in Washington, both sides say they don't want to give up much of anything.
~ John Dickerson
A sign that negotiations were handled well on both sides is that everybody probably feels a little bit like they didn't get what they wanted.
~ Christopher Lloyd
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
~ Emil Cioran
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.
~ bovee christian nestell iii
Do you know what a compromise is? -Bending the law? -No, an agreement reached by mutual concessions.
~ Harper Lee
If historicism were consistent, it would have to concede the right of history to every historical being, and therefore it must not stick anywhere, precisely because it should stick everywhere. As a world view, it makes the lack of principles a principle....
~ Heinrich Rickert
True story: In the spring, my first in K.C., I'd written a series of columns in the Star demanding the Royals front office give fans discounted prices at concession stands as an apology for the 1994 strike. The Royals acquiesced.
~ Jason Whitlock
El que hace una concesión no puede ya detenerse.
~ Stefan Zweig
Yet the organic label itself—like every other such label in the supermarket—is really just an imperfect substitute for direct observation of how a food is produced, a concession to the reality that most people in an industrial society haven't the time or the inclination to follow their food back to the farm, a farm which today is apt to be, on average, fifteen hundred miles away.
~ Michael Pollan
Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.' 'Ship.' 'Ship ... Your ship is beautiful.
~ Ally Carter
politics is the art of the compromise
~ Bill Clinton
You lost a close election," Graham
~ Bob Woodward
When you sell a prospecting concession, you're only selling potential. You pay tolls for the right to invest and look for something.
~ Beny Steinmetz
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
~ Frederick Douglass
prize of a Tito-istic Vietnam would be a great let-out for the West," as one put it.) Moreover, given Hanoi's desire to be rid of the Americans, it ought to be possible at a conference to negotiate a concession that would help the Americans save face-the most likely such concession being a delay in reunifying
~ Fredrik Logevall
2. Almost everything is negotiable
~ Herb Cohen
Boxing several favorites in a race is a concession that you have no opinion of any value
~ Steven Crist
She had a hard time making herself let go and they waged a short, silent, silly little battle that he won, which she reluctantly conceded was probably only fair since it was part of his body.
~ Karen Marie Moning
a concession
~ Bruce Levine
Ulica Krokodyli by?a koncesj? naszego miasta na rzecz nowoczesno?ci i zepsucia wielkomiejskiego. Widocznie nie sta? nas by?o na nic innego, jak na papierow? imitacj?, jak na fotomonta? z?o?ony z wycinków zle?a?ych, zesz?orocznych gazet.
~ Bruno Schulz