When you’re devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you’re willing to compromise something you love.
Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
Ecosystems are holy. The word “environmental” is a deadly compromise itself. It’s a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
Trade negotiations require compromise.
Any time a party has lost three consecutive elections, it becomes a bit more willing to explore the notion of principled compromise so it’s able to pursue some of its objectives.
Democratic government is difficult. It is much more difficult than populists claim. It’s not like running a business or a police force. It demands compromise.
I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
Reaching compromise does not signal weakness, but rather is a sign of strength. The ability to compromise is the backbone of democracy.
I feel very strongly that you can’t just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won’t happen otherwise.
Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.
The truth is Floridians and Montanans have more in common than you might think. Both are fed up with partisan gridlock in D.C., and look to their state leaders to find common ground, pursue compromise, and move forward solutions that improve the health of their economy, their communities and their residents.
We’re not pretending to be somebody else. We’re being ourselves; we’re doing what we do, and people have trust that they put in that, that we won’t compromise on our ideals. And it really paid off.
Human life isn’t about ideals. It’s a compromise, and occasionally it’s boring.
Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don’t compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.
Compromise disappoints those who buy into the most ambitious and simplistic populist slogans.
I think that among my friends I’m known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can’t be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It’s not a 9-5 job. There’s always something to learn.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
I’m interested in why people compromise when they shouldn’t. It comes back to what V’s about in a sense. We’ve all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we’ll forget about them and put them behind us. I’m very interested in why people do that.
Never compromise yourself.
Being feminine in the way you dress doesn’t have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.
We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another.
The First Step Act, the WEEE Act, and President Trump’s infrastructure and immigration compromise plans all serve as examples of Trump administration outreach to the Democrats.
I think it’s natural for anyone that participates in a public debate to advocate for the most extreme version that they can, particularly if they believe that government tends to compromise.
When we got quite big and were generating a lot of money through the arenas, we became quite a big thing, and a lot of managers appeared, and it became a big machine, like we were in Pink Floyd or something, and I don’t think we were into that. We didn’t really compromise.
I don’t care if you will get angry with me, but I am not open to a compromise. Contractualization must go. It is anti-people.
Some things I don’t compromise on. Health care is one of them.
I’m not going to compromise or not say what I want for anyone.
I think it’s important for women to know that you don’t have to compromise your fullness, your dopeness. You can be everything you want to be.
Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health.
Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.
We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.
Tennesseans know they can count on me to never compromise on independent, conservative principles and that I will always fight for smaller government, less spending, and more jobs.
In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I’m not.
It’s really nice to be able to do what I’m doing without having to compromise with another musician.
Allowing a handful of broadband carriers to determine what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the features that have made the Internet such a success, and could permanently compromise the Internet as a platform for the free exchange of information, commerce, and ideas.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions – of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
Naturally, in a band or duo, it’s really about compromise which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
I sincerely believe that there’s room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.
I’m not going to compromise and settle for what I feel is less than I deserve or less than anyone deserves.
Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can’t compromise. It’s unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it’s been done.
We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.
In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.
Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, ‘Okay, I’m doing the right thing for the environment; it’s cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.’ And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it’s cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.
When jurors are forced to spend day and night with each other, apart from their families and friends, they become a tribe unto themselves. Because they only have each other for company, and because most people prefer harmony to discord, there’s a natural desire to cooperate, to compromise in order to reach agreement.
That’s one thing about Hollywood. People don’t always want what’s real. People always want a little more. So for me, it’s a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.
This is football, and one cannot be distracted at any moment because the opposition can put you in difficulty and compromise a result.
You know what, if you compromise and do stuff that’s not becoming to you as an artist, that’s your fault.
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes.
It’s a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
I think too often you see parts being taken from one engine to go onto another… That’s been too much of a theme over the whole hybrid era, and that must compromise dyno time, that must compromise endurance running, and so on.
As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing in this tradition, the Orientalizing Western gaze is something you have to constantly push against as well as compromise with.
Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
We shouldn’t deny the right of the minority to filibuster, but we need to do a much better job of making them own it. That way, the American people could figure out who is being obstructionist and who is willing to compromise.
The result may not be perfect. But our forefathers wanted us to compromise to get things done for America.
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.
Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We’ve never claimed more, and we’ve never had less.
