Quotes About Compromise

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both. [The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.]

When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful.

Honor?" "Yes." "I'm going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn't let a man do to her.

As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be.

I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again.

If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

You can always tell when Obama's negotiations with the Republicans are winding down, because he's missing his watch and his lunch money.

In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and finally I did it for money.

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.