I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.
Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.
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 cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
I've made compromises to survive in life, and to be able to do what I want to do. But, once anything has been put on screen, I've never made a compromise.
There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
To get people to compromise, you have to give them stuff.
If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.
Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, and our votes have been counted.
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.
Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.
Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.
I don't understand the art of compromise, and it's a shame the politicians don't understand that as well, you know, we might have a better, clearer world. But then saying that, we might also get a lot of Donald Trump's running left right and centre.
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.
Love is not a compromise. It's something like the rising of the sun,although you've seen it a thousand times, you can't explain it.
Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
I believe that in fact it would be economically reasonable and logical to reach a compromise [on oil production], I am sure that everybody understands this.
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
And you can really see in all of these issues that are priorities for Eleanor Roosevelt, where the compromises are painful, the compromises are hard, and the difficulties between them really begin to loom very large by 1936, by 1938.