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Life involves other people and it is a compromise.
Kevin McCloud
Life
People
Other
Compromise
Involves
Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.
Kevin Spacey
Politics
Made
Ideology
Party
Way
Only
Compromise
Partisan
Got
The Only Thing
Successful
Ever
Thing
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Lawrence Durrell
Life
Art
Daily
People
Try
Imagination
Way
Destiny
Wounded
Compromise
Potential
Through
True
Joyous
True Potential
Waits
Artists
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Us
Fulfil
Daily Life
Defeated
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi
Practice
Every
Compromise
Imperfect
Perfection
Like
Devise
Principle
Practise
Limits
Cannot
Us
Moment
Beings
Expression
I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity, and I can't compromise that.
Megan Fox
Soul
Integrity
Compromise
My Soul
Onto
Hold
Need
Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
Oliver Tambo
Our
Negotiations
System
About
Compromise
End
Target
Apartheid
Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.
Paul Kagame
Think
Sign
Weakness
Compromise
No-One
Flexibility
Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.
Ron Paul
Assumes
Settlement
Everyone
Ourselves
Must
Madison
Some
Compromise
Leading
Between
Leading Role
Involving
Foreign
Israelis
Role
America
Crafting
Conflicts
Against
Explicitly
Warned
Jefferson
Washington
Play
Palestinians
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Alone
People
Voting
Long
Redistricting
Own
Group
Collaboration
Distinctions
Easier
Compromise
Structures
Take
Allow
Divisions
Tenure
Makes
Same
Departments
Which
Turf
Produce
Root
Creates
Organizational
Congressional
Hardened
Resist
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.
Sammy Hagar
Time
Me
Wife
Fly
Baby
Meet
Those
Would
About
Guys
Compromise
Knew
Over
Call
Halfway
Beck
Any
Reason
To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead.
Saul Alinsky
Beautiful
You
Key
Word
Nothing
Percent
Compromise
Demand
Beautiful Word
Operation
Always
Then
Organizer
Present
Start
By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.
Tony Blair
Nature
Together
People
Believe
Sloppy
Compromise
Builder
Am
Bringing
Consensus
Compromise has a negative connotation.
Abdolkarim Soroush
Negative
Compromise
Connotation
I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.
Abigail Disney
Women
People
Community
Too
Say
People Say
Compromise
Like
Because
Heard
Quick
Among
There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.
Alan Dershowitz
Pride
Will
Values
Liberal
Significant
Compromise
Segment
Never
He
Support
Another
Israel
American
Refused
Who
Original
Shrinking
Jewish
I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
Alan Sugar
Compromise
Forced
Principles
Am
Going
Them
I don't like compromise. In politics, you have to always choose a compromise, and sometimes, that, I don't like.
Alessandra Mussolini
Politics
You
Sometimes
Compromise
Like
Always
Choose
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.
Alexander Chee
You
Feeling
Kind
Compromise
Fail
Failures
Another
Least
Succeed
Then
Two
I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.
Allen West
Try
Word
Believe
Only
Compromise
Never
Come
Terms
Force
Democrats
Heard
Want
Republicans
Used
Play
Starting
The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future.
Andrew Nikiforuk
Future
Generation
Become
Inevitable
Nation
Politicians
Energy
Too
Destructiveness
Security
Compromise
Well
Tar
Canadians
Energy Security
Sands
Next
Who
Tolerant
That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
Angela Merkel
Politics
Good
Single
Depend
Group
Everybody
Everyone
Must
Compromise
Make
Sure
Makes
Contribution
Where
Interest
Why
It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.
Ann Marie Buerkle
Willing
Compromise
Principles
Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
Anna Lindh
Terrorism
Respect
Together
Rights
Fight
Law
Human Rights
Others
Our
Rule
Rule Of Law
Must
Compromise
Never
Excuse
Accepted
Methods
Human
Used
There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.
Anthony Fauci
You
Lost
Own
Once
Way
One-Way
More
Compromise
Principles
Goal
Than
Get
Want
Then
Really
Your
Among directing teams, you find a high percentage of brothers. You need the ability to compromise. With siblings, you've grown up with a pattern that, yeah, every once in a while you have to give in for the greater good, for the family collective.
Anthony Russo
Good
Family
You
Collective
Every
Once
High
Find
Ability
High Percentage
Brothers
Give
Percentage
Directing
Compromise
Greater
Greater Good
Yeah
Up
While
Pattern
Teams
Grown
Grown-Up
Among
Need
Sibling
Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.
Ariel Levy
Marriage
Everyone
Compromise
Different
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