Quotes About Compromise

I'm always feeling like I have to do some bad action movie for money.

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.

Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?"- Eric, club dead.

A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money.

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money and that is to enjoy earning it.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations around the table rather than starting war.

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

And sometimes being in love is not enough to make it work.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

Politicians think that if matters look difficult, compromise is a good approach. Unfortunately, nature and the laws of physics cannot compromise - they are what they are.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.