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Quotes about compromise
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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. (Bierce Ambrose)
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. (Bierce Ambrose)
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf. (Bierce Ambrose)
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last. (Bierce Ambrose)
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The English never draw a line without blurring it. (Bierce Ambrose)
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. (Bierce Ambrose)
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both. (Bierce Ambrose)
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. (Bierce Ambrose)
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. (Bierce Ambrose)
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. (Bierce Ambrose)
It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man. (Bierce Ambrose)
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. (Bierce Ambrose)
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. (Bierce Ambrose)
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. (Bierce Ambrose)
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. (Bierce Ambrose)
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship. (Bierce Ambrose)
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment. (Bierce Ambrose)
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success. (Bierce Ambrose)
Better bend than break. (Bierce Ambrose)
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned. (Bierce Ambrose)
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. (Bierce Ambrose)
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. (Bierce Ambrose)
As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice. (Bierce Ambrose)
I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise. (Bierce Ambrose)
“The truth is I can't be with you like this. I mean, I know I said that I could, but I can't. I just can't compromise myself like that. I mean I'm an emotional person. I feel things and I need to be able to get upset and talk about how I'm feeling. I mean that's just...that's who I am and I can't change it. I don't want to. And the thing is you know that, you knew it and you still pursued me because you want something with me, you just aren't strong enough to have it which...in a way makes you a coward. And the saddest part is that...one day you're gonna wake up and you're gonna realize what you missed and it's gonna be too late. (Felicity to Ben)” (Bierce Ambrose)
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