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• I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

  Ted Stevens

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Discuss

• Ain’t nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

  Talib Kweli

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Moral

• Once you’re signed to a label you compromise.

  Talib Kweli

  Topics in Compromise

• If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don’t want to compromise.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Purpose

• Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Means, Prudence

• I’m not ready to do any compromises for my work.

  Audrey Tautou

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Ready

• You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

  William Butler Yeats

  Topics in Compromise, God, Truth

• You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

  Richard Widmark

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Result, Counts

• We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

  Raquel Welch

  Topics in Compromise, Dream

  Tags in Childhood

• Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

  Robert Coles

  Topics in Compromise, Confidence, Democracy, Leadership, Politics

  Tags in Government, Integrity/Individuality, Character, Judgment, Conscience, Courage, Choice, Choosing

• Don’t compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

  Toby Keith

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Hurts

• But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Arrive, Consensus, Sooner

• It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Weakness, Strength

• You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

  Ayrton Senna

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Win

• A series is filled with compromises.

  William Shatner

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Filled

• 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.’

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Political, Good, Sentence

• When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

  Topics in Compromise, Death, Fear

  Tags in Honor

• And I’m here to tell you, the reaction that I’m getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

  Herman Cain

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Reaction

• What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

  Bliss Carman

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Facts

• I often wish… that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

  Bliss Carman

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Facts