#compromise

The devil is compromise. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#devil

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#any #anything #be prepared #compromise #just

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good? ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#humor #humor

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love #love

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #compromised #diplomatic #initiatives #interested

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. ↗

— Christian Bale

#compromise #proud #something

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #compromised #handed #i #many

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#believe #career #compromise #early #eats

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#art #attention #because #been #compromise

Compromise 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

#both #compromise #ending #good #hope