#concession

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. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#asking #become #concession #foot #four

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#business #concessions #government #happen #insistent

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#concessions #emanated #established #forbearance #forever

The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought. ↗

— Jacques Ibert

#aspects #concessions #fortuitous #harmonious #result

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.' ↗

— John McCain

#adhere #bipartisan #concessions #did #done

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. ↗

— George Santayana

#institution #less #making #more #others

A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#concessions #court #court decision #decision #effective

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. ↗

— Erich Auerbach

#difficult #forced #historians #history #make

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life? ↗

— Henry Harland

#do you know #grace #know #life #minor

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's? ↗

— King Abdullah II

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