419 Quotes About Compromise

And what would you like, Sharie?" asked Miss Mush."What do you have?" asked Sharie."Potato salad"."What else is there?" asked Sharie."Nothing" said Miss Mush."Okay" said Sharie. "I'll have that.""Potato salad?" asked Miss Mush."No,nothing." said Sharie.

To be compromised you need to have a stake in things, you need to have something to lose and something to gain. You have to be risking yourself, not all the time, but enough of the time to be weighing things up, principle over self-preservation, the gains, the losses.

The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its principles, to its class, to its revolutionary purpose, to its task of paving the way for revolution and educating the mass of the people for victory in the revolution.

...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.

Applaud to those who withstand the shards of compromise. May laurel leaves sit on your head, and life-long pride be yours for the taking.

You can never be too slow when you try to deal with public safety, because as we've seen in other historic periods where we've cut dramatically the size of the police force, there's been a concomitant increase ... in crime, ... You can't compromise public safety.

I want to say unequivocally that safety is our number one priority. Nothing will ever compromise that.

The compromise we made with the AA this time was a fair one. It is a privilege for us to use these courts and in order to continue using them we need to work together so that the courts stay in good condition.