For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo EmersonThe `morality of compromise` sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don`t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
- Andrew CarnegieCompromise 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.
- G.K. ChestertonSome people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.
- Bill WattersonOne of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
- Chinua AchebeQuality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don`t see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die.
- Gary HirshbergCompromise 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 LowellCompromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.
- Tryon Edwards"And we`re way more carnal than women would like to believe. We want arousal, we want to have fun. This is me as Mike, my character speaking by the way," Butler jokes. "No, the idea is that we`re looking for two different things. And men and women, we need to find a way to meet in the middle
- Gerard Butler