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“Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented sett...”
“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”
“Most people have fear to compromise with life.You got to take the reins of your life in your own hands, and direct it yourself.You decide how you use your time.”
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”
“Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?”
“Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.”
“Compromise is a stalling between two fools.”
“Let's go to bed. Those four words differentiate a marriage from every other kind of relationship. We aren't going to find a way to agree, but let's go to bed. Not because we want to, but because we...”
“I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.”
“You cannot carry your whole marriage on your back and call it, compromising. It takes two willing hearts to effectively compromise.”
“I'm just a broken thing you're familiar with.”
“Every one of us can do something about the truth. You can at least stand for the truth wherever you are. You can refuse to compromise the truth. Of course you can tell the truth. Truth could be pro...”
“I had crossed fifty years of my life, and come across uncountable females as son, husband, father, friend in my life. Coming across several women I carefully studied most of them, and feels that I ...”
“You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.”
“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”
“I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.”
“Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.”
“We walked through the streets with our protectors. We wore our dresses. We gave up our education because that was the price of safety. That was the bargain we made with the devil we knew to escape ...”
“Compromise is the assassin of fellowship with God.”
“Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.”
