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From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.
Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to build consensus and compromise.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
I miss the New York bagel but miss the New York bialy even more. It's a great compromise of bagel feeling with less dough stuffing.
A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
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.
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.
If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.
You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?
And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.
Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.
The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.
I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
It's about maintaining balance. Plan better, be organised. I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?
I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.
It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
This is football, and one cannot be distracted at any moment because the opposition can put you in difficulty and compromise a result.
You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.
As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."
Paparazzi will try to get the most controversial picture of you in a compromising position because that's how they're going to sell it.
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.
You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.
Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.
Reaching compromise does not signal weakness, but rather is a sign of strength. The ability to compromise is the backbone of democracy.
I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.
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.
I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.
Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!
Compromise is when one person wants to rob a bank and the other person does not, and they compromise to rob a person outside of the bank.
Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
If you're operating from strong principles, you can compromise when the person on the other side is operating from principles you respect.
My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.
I think everybody wants someone who understands them and is able to compromise and meet them halfway. I mean, it goes both ways, you know?
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.
The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.
Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
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.
The bottom line - customers want delicious food served quickly in an interactive format, and they are increasingly unwilling to compromise.
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.
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.
The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.
[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.