#compromise

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

#compromise #excuse #fight #human #human rights

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. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#compromise #expedient #good #makes #often

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#american #american taxpayer #asked #being #benefit

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#any #basically #because #code #compromised

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#first #his #illusion #man #sweetheart

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#compromise #englishman #god #idea #know

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#coming #compromises #doing #express #listener

I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19. ↗

— Michael J. Owen

#basically #been #career #changed #compromised

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen. ↗

— Bill Owens

#compromise #get #i #me #out

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. ↗

— Amos Oz

#both #both sides #burned #coexist #compromise