Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
You know, you don't get to survive that long without making some compromises.
We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.
Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.
'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.
You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.
I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.
Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.
Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise with anybody or anything else in the world. I do not care. I want to really go beyond this materialistic world. . . not for the sake of enjoyment, entertainment, no. A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards Space.
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.
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.
Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.
The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.
Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.