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"I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree."
― D.R. Silva

"In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was."
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

"Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight."
― St. Josemaria Escriva

"Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.

Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away."
― George Packer

"Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy"
― Phyllis McGinley

"The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world."
― Terry Tempest Williams, Leap

"I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise."
― Mary Balogh, Simply Perfect

"Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us."
― P.T. Forsyth

"Sometimes in life, you do things you don't want to. Sometimes you sacrifice, sometimes you compromise. Sometimes you let go and sometimes you fight. It's all about deciding what's worth losing and what's worth keeping."
― Lindy Zart, Complete

"Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and."
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

"There is no more confused message that you and I could give to a lost and dying world than to live in sin and at the same time to tell people about the transforming power of Jesus Christ. There isn't a more confusing thing we can do to our kids and the generation behind us, to this world.

God will not use a compromised life to reach a compromised world. God will use a life that is given over to Him, that is a demonstration of the message that through the power of Jesus Christ and His love He can transform our lives and set us free."
― Joe Focht

"Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for."
― Ogwo David Emenike

"How wonderful it would be if everything could always be as clear and simple as it used to be when you were twelve years old, or twenty years old. If there really were only two colors in the world: black and white. But even the most honest and ingenuous cop, raised on the resounding ideal of the stars and stripes, has to understand sooner or later that there's more than just Darkness and Light out on the streets. There are understandings, concessions, agreements. Informers, traps, provocations. Sooner or later the time comes when you have to betray your own side, plant bags of heroin in pockets, and beat people on the kidneys—carefully, so there are no marks."
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

"Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour."
― Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

"How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell."
― Alan Cairns

"You gave me two alternatives that you could live with, and I chose the one that I could live with. That's how compromise is supposed to work."
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

"Compromise brings harmony to both, happiness to none."
― Amit Kalantri

"The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise."
― imre kertesz

"I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life and decided that any responsible, thinking individual should have the right to reject this gift that had never been asked for - and whose noble gesture re-emphasised with each passing decade the compromise and littleness that most lives consist of. 'Most lives': my life."
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

"Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused."
― African saying

"The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost."
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

"[W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm? Will Republicans stop their vicious attacks because Obama is lashing out to his left? It was pure self-indulgence; even if he feels aggrieved, he has to judge his words by their usefulness, not by his desire to vent. This isn't about him."
― Paul Krugman

"Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art."
― Joyce Carol Oates

"When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach."
― Sunday Adelaja

"In order to live on this Earth together in harmony, humanity must make certain compromises to relate to each other. Everyone must make the necessary adaptations at some point in their lives—as children, they must adapt to their guardians; as adults, to their authorities and governments; and as elderly persons, to their caretakers. Those at the top now may not be there one day, and those at the bottom now could eventually rise to the top. Life is a cycle."
― Cate East, Generational Astrology: How Astrology Can Crack the Millennial Code

"Compromise is the lubrication that avoids conflict enabling a relationship to avoid any unnecessary or avoidable confrontations of any sort to materialise."
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

"The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn't do it."
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

"we don't all have to be the same in every dimension in order to appreciate and respect each other."
― Scott Kaufman

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