Concession Quotes

I`m six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It`s reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I`ll become a madman.

I have to say I`ve worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

The men were stoolin` in the toilets `til they were overflowing. Then they went beside the walls. Then they filled the urinals. They were peeing and pooing into the sinks and garbage cans and behind the concession stands. You got it all over your shoes. You were tracking it all over the place.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

we`ll need a little bit more of a concession.

(And lurking at a concession stand nearby is the debate of whether there are enough footballs to keep all of the receivers happy.) That`s on the quarterback, ... Ask Joey. Joey`s got to spread (it) around.... All I can do is get open.

It is a concession. Three years was what we asked for. It`s the most generous amount of time we thought they would be willing to accept. I would have been even happier with five years.