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• Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Support

• Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

  Nicole Kidman

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Requires

• Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions – of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

  James M. Baldwin

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Consciousness, Continuous, Equilibrium, Balance

• If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Clever, Compromise

• I’m free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don’t try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don’t compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

  Erykah Badu

  Topics in Compromise

• I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Topics in Compromise

• The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

  Enid Bagnold

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Theater, Sweeps

• The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Topics in Compromise

• More often there’s a compromise between ethics and expediency.

  Peter Albert David Singer

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Ethics, Expediency

• I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

  Walter Annenberg

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Inhibit

• A meagre compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

  Topics in Compromise, Danish Proverbs

  Tags in Lawsuit

• A bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit.

  Topics in Compromise, French Proverbs

• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let’s cooperate.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Political, Extremes, Imbalances

• I don’t think there’s anything in the compromise that means that there’s a clash of ethics.

  Peter Albert David Singer

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Clash, Ethics

• One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

  Chinua Achebe

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Refusal, Integrity

• Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Adjustment

• The devil is compromise.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Topics in Compromise

• We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Topics in Compromise

• Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality

• Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.

  Janis Joplin

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality