97 quotes found
“You must have your own world within the world and you must never compromise on the matters of giving up your own world for any reason whatsoever!”
“We all get lots of people. And maybe we dont always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.”
“You will not mock meand you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death. I have been through all that, and I will not chase after you like some lovesick poet spout...”
“The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.”
“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”
“The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.”
“A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.”
“People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy”
“The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.”
“Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for.”
“Sighing, I scooted down in the booth and pulled away my hand. You cant control everything. Its like youre a finished product and Im a brand new idea. Youre making all the decisions about who I can ...”
“Hard edges make truth and by necessity, truth is unbending. Unlike truths absolutism, justice is a qualitative substance; it is not an absolute tenet. Justice must be pliable in order to meet the n...”
“But memory is less disposed to compromise”
“Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality that attains not optimal decisions but more...”
“In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new group of people who are even less inclined to or cap...”
“...it is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. -Wilbur Wright, 1911”
“Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to ...”
“When it comes to morals & principles, a man in the 'real' world has two options; compromise or wait for sometime and then compromise.”
“I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life and decided that any responsible, thinking individual should have the right to reject this gift t...”
“wherever there is true love, compromising will always be an unspoken norm.”
