I’m a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn’t appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.
Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.
Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a ‘hot button’ issue, this is definitely it. Don’t even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.
If I’m doing a show on Sunday at 7 P.M., that wouldn’t be the same show that I’d do at 11 P.M. on a Saturday – it’s a different room at a different time of day with different sensibilities. That doesn’t mean you have to compromise your art, but it is communication: you have to know how to talk to people.
No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.
If you compromise, and then you succeed, that’s another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it’s two failures at least.
I think it’s safe to say I love cooking as much as I love sports. I love creating new dishes and just experimenting in the kitchen, but I never compromise on taste.
I do love my wine. I’d opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.
Normally, I would seek to compromise, but not on immigration policy.
I was a ‘young adult’ when I wrote ‘The Outsiders,’ although it was not a genre at the time. It’s an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
If there’s one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don’t, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.
For me, arguably, the European Parliament is the best-functioning European institution. They are extremely good at law-making; they’re extremely good at finding compromise under pressure.
I’ve never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians – I’ll work with Martians if – and the if is critical – they’re willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.
You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.
More often there’s a compromise between ethics and expediency.
In every project I do, I’m unwilling to compromise my values and morals and ethics. That’s very important to me.
I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.
Any negotiation involves compromise and no one will get everything they want.
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
It takes compromise to raise a child, especially with a schedule like mine.
This industry will shape you and mold you, and if you’re willing to compromise yourself and let yourself change too much, then you’re not really gonna know you are anymore.
Life is about compromise – in relationships and at work.
You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.
This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don’t get everything you want.
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.
In India, we surrender and compromise. We end up getting a star who is not fitting the character.
The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people’s private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.
Abandoning traditions of responsibility and civility won the GOP control of both houses of Congress in 1994. Rejecting any compromise brought Republicans the perks and power of majority control for the first time in 40 years. Thus did the politics of total resistance become their path of least resistance.
There is too much blind partisanship in Congress, which has blocked progress on critical issues. Too many members view compromise as weakness rather than the essence of our democracy. This has to end.
Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace – values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It’s the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.
I can’t be diplomatic or compromise or take crap from people, so I’d probably make an exit way before I even made a proper entry into Bollywood.
You can compromise on anything else in your life but love. It’s the one time where under no circumstances should you let yourself have second rate.
If you’re putting in the hours to improve your skills and open up new opportunities, a car repair shouldn’t compromise your future.
In politics, sometimes, you dig your heels in and draw a line in the sand and refuse to compromise.
The reason I didn’t fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.
I will sit at the table and compromise with anyone in the name of progress, but there are things I’m not willing to compromise and negotiate on, and that is the rights of women, of immigrants, of workers, and of the LGBTQIA community.
You need to get female talent which is good enough to compete at the right level because no team is going to compromise on on-track performance just to tick a gender box.
But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn’t do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs – Early Days – which is what it is – and Latter Days.
But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.
Otherwise, to be a movie star, it’s a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can’t do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don’t want it.
Life involves other people and it is a compromise.
I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
My views are simple. If you’re gonna make a commitment, particularly marriage, stick to it. If you can’t compromise, you’ve got no chance.
Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.
Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn’t take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies’ ability and will to make war.
As a small brand, we do it all. We don’t need an investor. We would never go anywhere or do anything where we feel it would compromise what we do.
I think that trans women have endured a lot and they compromise a lot when dealing with cis hetero men.
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
I have no doubt that if confirmed, Judge Gorsuch would help to restore confidence in the rule of law. His years on the bench reveal a commitment to judicial independence – a record that should give the American people confidence that he will not compromise principle to favor the president who appointed him.
We’re not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it’s certainly willingness to compromise but we’re not going back on the fundamental things we’re running on in this campaign.
We’re getting the sort of ‘compromise’ American politics specializes in: the one where things are intentionally made worse for most people in the hopes that if things are made bad enough, the other side will cave.
Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.
Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.
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.
