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• Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

  David Sedaris

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Lovers

• I’ve been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I’ve wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

  Dario Argento

  Topics in Compromise

• I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.

  David Cross

  Topics in Compromise

• Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

  Daniel Pipes

  Topics in Compromise

• This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Topics in Compromise, Evolution

• If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

  Bill Owens

  Topics in Compromise

• 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.

  Ted Cruz

  Topics in Compromise, Work

• I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it’s with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we’re reducing the size of government.

  Ted Cruz

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Democrats

• My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

   

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Compromise, Experience

  Tags in Listen, People

• I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Topics in Compromise

• I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Help

• A man’s wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

  George Jean Nathan

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Wife

• I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

  Garry Trudeau

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in People, Contradictions

• I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

  Ted Stevens

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Discuss

• Ain’t nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

  Talib Kweli

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Moral

• Once you’re signed to a label you compromise.

  Talib Kweli

  Topics in Compromise

• If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don’t want to compromise.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Purpose

• Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Means, Prudence

• I’m not ready to do any compromises for my work.

  Audrey Tautou

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Ready

• You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

  William Butler Yeats

  Topics in Compromise, God, Truth