Top Compromise Quotes
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Arthur Bloch
Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
Talib Kweli
Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.
Mike Rutherford
The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.
Jose Serrano
Talib Kweli 
Lord Edward Cecil 
Paddy Ashdown 
Sammy Hagar 
Erykah Badu 
Kim Il Sung 
John Hickenlooper 
Robert Toombs 
Henry Ossawa Tanner All Compromise Quotes
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
Barack Obama 
72% of people like this quote
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Arthur Bloch
69% of people like this quote
The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.
Jose Serrano
60% of people like this quote
Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.
Mike Rutherford
60% of people like this quote
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Lawrence Durrell
60% of people like this quote
Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
58% of people like this quote
Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment.
Michael Badnarik
58% of people like this quote
By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.
Natan Sharansky
58% of people like this quote
Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.
Paul Kagame
57% of people like this quote
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